López ZJ, Valle RJ, Reséndiz CJA, Ornelas SPA

Language: Spanish
References: 12
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ABSTRACT

Objective: We describe the presentation of a case of breast angiosarcoma treated in our department of breast tumors and the literature review. Material and methods: We performed a literature review on angiosarcoma of the breast, that although it is a rare neoplasm, of which we only have a few cases, mostly case reports and very few series of the same, in our Breast Tumors Service we presented the case of a female adult patient with this diagnosis. Results: We present the case of a female patient of 50 years with an injured left breast, she underwent complete protocol, whose histopathological diagnosis is an angiosarcoma of breast of high grade which was managed with radical mastectomy, followed by postoperative radiotherapy, with a survival of 18 months with mortality from hepatic coma secondary to liver metastasis. Conclusions: Breast angiosarcoma is a rare tumor of poor prognosis and difficult diagnosis. The treatment is based on a wide excisional surgery, which many authors interpret as a mastectomy. Local recurrence is frequent and portends a poor prognosis, but does not exclude a new surgical attempt, even curative. The role of radiotherapy and chemotherapy is not well established.

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