Metastasis of mediastinal epithelioid angiosarcoma to the finger

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-183

  Chen, Ting Jui ^a,b   Chiou, Chien Chun ^b   Chen, Chien Hsun ^b,c   Kuo, Tsen Tong ^b   Hong, Hong Shang ^b  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma, general

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FINGER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINAL EPITHELIOID ANGIOSARCOMA; METASTASIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA, EPITHELIOID; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42449130474     PISSN: 11750561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00128071-200809030-00007     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Elder D, editor. Lever's histopathology of the skin. 9th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 2004: 1045-6
2. Wehrli BM, Janzen DL, Shokeir O, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma arising in a surgically constructed arteriovenous fistula: a rare complication of chronic immunosuppression in the setting of renal transplantation. Am J Surg Pathol 1998; 22 (9): 1154-9
3. Ghanem N, Riede U, Uhrmeister P, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma of the aorta. Vasa 2002; 31 (4): 269-73
4. Hottenrott G, Mentzel T, Peters A, et al. Intravascular ("intimal") epithelioid angiosarcoma: clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of three cases. Virchows Arch 1999; 435 (5): 473-8
5. Byers RJ, McMahon RF, Freemont AJ, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma arising in an arteriovenous fistula. Histopathology 1992; 21 (1): 87-9
6. Jennings TA, Peterson L, Axiotis CA, et al. Angiosarcoma associated with foreign body material: a report of three cases. Cancer 1988; 62: 2436-44
7. Cokelaere K, Vanvuchelen J, Michielsen P, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma of the splenic capsule: report of a case reiterating the concept of inert foreign body tumorigenesis. Virchows Arch 2001; 438 (4): 398-403
8. Fletcher CDM, Beham A, Bekir S, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma of deep soft tissue: a distinctive tumor readily mistaken for an epithelial neoplasm. Am J Surg Pathol 1991; 15: 915-24
9. Liu M, Ba E, Zhao P, et al. A clinicopathological study of fifteen epithelioid angiosarcomas. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2002; 31 (5): 407-10
10. Deshpande V, Rosenberg AE, O'Connell JX, et al. Epithelioid angiosarcoma of the bone: a series of 10 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2003; 27: 709-16
11. Brownstein MH, Helwig EB. Metastatic tumors to the skin. Cancer 1972; 29: 1298-307
12. Green DP, Hotchkiss RN, Pederson WC. Green's operative hand surgery. 4th ed. Vol. 2. Philadelphia (PA): Churchill Livingstone, 1998: 2244-5
13. Silfen R, Amir A, Tobar A, et al. The digital pulp as a presenting site of metastatic esophageal carcinoma. Ann Plast Surg 2001; 46: 183-4
14. Levack B, Scott G, Flanagan JP. Metastatic carcinoma presenting as a pulp space infection. Hand 1983; 15: 341-3
15. Yasaka N, Ando I, Kukita A. An acral inflammatory cutaneous metastasis of oesophageal carcinoma. Br J Dermatol 1999; 141: 938-9
16. Umebayashi Y. Metastasis of esophageal carcinoma manifesting as whitlow-like lesions. J Dermatol 1998; 25: 256-9