title: Development of angiosarcoma at the site of a bone infarct.
abstract: A 34-year-old man presented with angiosarcoma which developed at the site of a preexisting bone infarct in the metaphysis of the right tibia. A malignant bone tumor may develop at the site of bone infarct, and its histologic type is most frequently malignant fibrous histiocytoma or fibrosarcoma. Few patients with osteosarcoma have been reported: only 2 patients who had angiosarcoma that developed in a preexisting bone infarct have been reported in the English literature. Malignant transformation of bone infarct into angiosarcoma is extremely rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuno
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaneda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takeda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D013977:Tibia / Q000098:blood supply*