Stewart Treves Syndrome in a Woman with Mastectomy

Stewart Treves Syndrome is an angiosarcoma generally seen long time after radical mastectomy in breast carcinoma patients in chronic lymphoedema area. It's an angiosarcoma developed on a long standing lymphoedema, following a radical mastectomy. An 86-year-old woman was referred to our Dermatol...

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Published inJournal of clinical and diagnostic research Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. WD01 - WD02
Main Authors Alan, Sevil, Aktas, Habibullah, Ersoy, Ömer Faik, Aktümen, Alpay, Erol, Harun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited 01.02.2016
Subjects
angiosarcoma
breast cancer
lymphoedema
Angiosarcoma
Lymphoedema
Breast cancer
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Summary:Stewart Treves Syndrome is an angiosarcoma generally seen long time after radical mastectomy in breast carcinoma patients in chronic lymphoedema area. It's an angiosarcoma developed on a long standing lymphoedema, following a radical mastectomy. An 86-year-old woman was referred to our Dermatology outpatient clinic which developed a giant erythematous, oedematous, purplish lobulated plaque on her right forearm anteromedially with a few satellite erythematous papulonodules on her arm. The pathology revealed spindle-shaped tumour cells invading dermis with vascular differentiation into the subcutaneus tissue which are compatible with a diagnosis of angiosarcoma.
ISSN:2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI:10.7860/JCDR/2016/17541.7288