Currently, surgery associated with radiotherapy represents the treatment of choice for breast cancer patients since it can extend their life expectancy and ameliorate prognosis. On occasion, however, such a curative strategy can be complicated with a potentially ominous condition, the so-called secondary cutaneous angiosarcoma of the breast.

Angiosarcoma of the breast: a rare and dismal complication of breast surgery associated with radiation / Virgilio, Edoardo; Lombardi, Mariangela; Di Stefano, Domenica; Marchetti, Paolo; Cavallini, Marco; Addario Chieco, Paola. - In: THE AMERICAN SURGEON. - ISSN 0003-1348. - 83:3(2017), pp. 71-73.

Angiosarcoma of the breast: a rare and dismal complication of breast surgery associated with radiation

VIRGILIO, EDOARDO;
2017-01-01

Abstract

Currently, surgery associated with radiotherapy represents the treatment of choice for breast cancer patients since it can extend their life expectancy and ameliorate prognosis. On occasion, however, such a curative strategy can be complicated with a potentially ominous condition, the so-called secondary cutaneous angiosarcoma of the breast.
2017
Angiosarcoma of the breast: a rare and dismal complication of breast surgery associated with radiation / Virgilio, Edoardo; Lombardi, Mariangela; Di Stefano, Domenica; Marchetti, Paolo; Cavallini, Marco; Addario Chieco, Paola. - In: THE AMERICAN SURGEON. - ISSN 0003-1348. - 83:3(2017), pp. 71-73.
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