Stewart-Treves syndrome in a patient with elephantiasis.
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.
Hallel-Halevy
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Department of Dermatology, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, 84101, Israel. dafnah@bgumail.gu.ac.il
Yerushalmi
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Grunwald
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Avinoach
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Halevy
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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