title: Stewart-Treves syndrome in a patient with elephantiasis.
abstract: Angiosarcoma that develops in areas of chronic lymphedema is also called Stewart-Treves syndrome. It usually appears in areas of lymphedema several years after mastectomy for breast carcinoma. Only 10% of these angiosarcomas occur in areas of chronic lymphedema as a result of another cause. We present a patient with epithelioid angiosarcoma as a rare complication of elephantiasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, 84101, Israel. dafnah@bgumail.gu.ac.il
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hallel-Halevy
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yerushalmi
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Grunwald
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Avinoach
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Halevy
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D004604:Elephantiasis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013577:Syndrome