Cutaneous angiosarcoma of the hip.
An elderly patient is presented who developed a fatal angiosarcoma of the hip about ten years after surgery and radiation for a uterine malignancy. She developed a metastasis of the uterine tumor, requiring additional radiation, which led to aseptic necrosis of the hip and chronic joint and soft tissue infection of the hip from a joint prosthesis. Subsequently she developed chronic lymphedema of the hip and finally the cutaneous angiosarcoma in this area. Any or all of these factors might bear a causative relationship to the angiosarcoma, but none can be proved.
D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006615:Hip; D006801:Humans; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology