Angiosarcoma of the breast. Two cases following breast conserving treatment for invasive carcinoma

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 536-539

  Ortega, Adela Fernández ^a,b   Gil, Juan Miguel Gil ^a   Urruticoetxea, Ander ^a   Serra Payró, Josep María ^b  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast angiosarcoma; Breast conserving therapy; Radiation therapy; Radiation associated angiosarcoma; Secondary tumours; Sof ttissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SARCOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEATH; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; BREAST TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; SECOND CANCER; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY;

EID: 33846454762     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-006-0055-3     Document Type: Article

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