Angiosarcoma of the scalp
Angiosarcoma is a relatively rare soft tissue tumour. It usually occurs in the head and neck, and especially in the scalp, in elderly people. Its presentation varies from a small plaque to multifocal nodules. The treatment depends on the extent of the disease. Most cases are treated with wide excisi...
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| author | Manjiri DasGupta Nilay Chakrabarti Pravin Agrawal Swati Narurkar |
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| description | Angiosarcoma is a relatively rare soft tissue tumour. It usually occurs in the head and neck, and especially in the scalp, in elderly people. Its presentation varies from a small plaque to multifocal nodules. The treatment depends on the extent of the disease. Most cases are treated with wide excision with reconstruction. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are advocated in the recurrent or extensive lesions with regional or distant metastasis. Other modalities such as immunomodulation have been tried. A case of a 55-year-old female patient with a bleeding scalp lesion is presented. Initially thought to be a pyogenic granuloma, on excisional biopsy it was diagnosed as angiosarcoma with microscopic involvement of the margins. Wide excision with reconstruction using a local rotation flap was done at a second stage. The patient was not given postoperative radiotherapy or chemotherapy. There has been no recurrence for two years. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9fe8acb64a73484fb23fea7a636613c82025-08-20T02:00:39ZengThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery0970-03581998-376X2009-01-01420111812110.1055/s-0039-1699326Angiosarcoma of the scalpManjiri DasGupta0Nilay Chakrabarti1Pravin Agrawal2Swati Narurkar3Department of Surgery, K.J. Somaiya Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, IndiaDepartment of Surgery, K.J. Somaiya Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, IndiaDepartment of Surgery, K.J. Somaiya Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, IndiaDepartment of Surgery, K.J. Somaiya Medical College and Hospital, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, IndiaAngiosarcoma is a relatively rare soft tissue tumour. It usually occurs in the head and neck, and especially in the scalp, in elderly people. Its presentation varies from a small plaque to multifocal nodules. The treatment depends on the extent of the disease. Most cases are treated with wide excision with reconstruction. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are advocated in the recurrent or extensive lesions with regional or distant metastasis. Other modalities such as immunomodulation have been tried. A case of a 55-year-old female patient with a bleeding scalp lesion is presented. Initially thought to be a pyogenic granuloma, on excisional biopsy it was diagnosed as angiosarcoma with microscopic involvement of the margins. Wide excision with reconstruction using a local rotation flap was done at a second stage. The patient was not given postoperative radiotherapy or chemotherapy. There has been no recurrence for two years.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1699326angiosarcomamalignant angioendotheliomamalignant hemangioendothelioma of scalp |
| spellingShingle | Manjiri DasGupta Nilay Chakrabarti Pravin Agrawal Swati Narurkar Angiosarcoma of the scalp Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery angiosarcoma malignant angioendothelioma malignant hemangioendothelioma of scalp |
| title | Angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| title_full | Angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| title_fullStr | Angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| title_full_unstemmed | Angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| title_short | Angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| title_sort | angiosarcoma of the scalp |
| topic | angiosarcoma malignant angioendothelioma malignant hemangioendothelioma of scalp |
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