Fulminant Hepatic Failure Secondary to Primary Hepatic Angiosarcoma
Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine, 2015 Background. Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive tumor that often presents at an advanced stage with nonspecific symptoms. Objective. To report a case of primary hepatic angiosarcoma in an otherwise healthy man with normal liver function tests ...
Ayokunle T. Abegunde +4 more
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Diethylnitrosamine (DENA) recapitulates formation of hepatic angiosarcoma in pigs.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Background & aimPrimary hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare tumor with poor prognosis. The aim of this study was to generate a new angiosarcoma model to improve research on hepatic angiosarcoma.MethodsPigs sus scrofa were treated with different regimens of ...
Sonja M Kessler +10 more
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Paraneoplastic Phenomena of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy in Hepatic Angiosarcoma – Rare, Challenging and Fatal. Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
Acta Medica Lituanica, 2021 Background. Hepatic angiosarcoma is an uncommon, malignant, primary liver tumor, comprising 2% of liver cancers and accounting for < 1% of all sarcomas.
Sandra Strainienė +6 more
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Hepatic Angiosarcoma Associated with Esophageal Variceal Hemorrhage
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2016 Primary hepatic angiosarcoma is a very rare malignancy with a poor prognosis. Because patients present with no specific symptoms, the cancer can grow undetected and most cases are diagnosed too late for resection.
Zensho Ito +12 more
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Hepatic Angiosarcoma with Kasabach-Merritt Phenomenon: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Annals of Hepatology, 2018 A 76-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to massive gingival bleeding following teeth extraction. Laboratory findings suggested disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC).
Fumika Fujii +7 more
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Angiosarcoma of the Face: A Case Study and Literature Review of Local and Metastatic Angiosarcoma
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2021 Angiosarcomas are vascular malignancies with a tendency to spread extensively both locally and systemically. We report a case of cutaneous angiosarcoma of the face in a 53-year-old man that was originally misdiagnosed as an abscess.
Hugo Lara-Martinez +5 more
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Case Report: The value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and contrast-enhanced computed tomography in the diagnosis of hepatic angiosarcoma [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 BackgroundEnhanced imaging techniques have the overwhelming advantages of being noninvasive and sensitive enough to evaluate the microcirculation of lesions, thus making them accurate in the diagnosis of hepatic lesions.
Feiqian Wang +6 more
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Advanced diffuse hepatic angiosarcoma treated successfully with TACE and targeted immunotherapy: A case report [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 Primary hepatic angiosarcoma (PHA), a rare soft tissue tumor, accounts for only 2% of all liver malignancies. Pathologically challenging, PHA is difficult to be distinguished from other malignancies with ultrasound, Computed Tomography (CT), or Magnetic ...
Yucheng Lin +6 more
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Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports, 2020 Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare and heterogeneous neoplasm that carries with it an especially poor prognosis. Diagnosis is challenging given that patients often present with vague, nonspecific complaints, and early multiorgan dysfunction has the potential
Brandon K.K. Fields +7 more
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Hepatic angiosarcoma five years following spontaneous intraperitoneal bleed of a hepatic mass
Rare Tumors, 2009 Primary hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare and rapidly fatal disease. We present the highly unusual identification of this lesion five years after the initial clinical presentation.
Alexandra N Kalof
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