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Clinical Cytology - Posters
FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY OF BREAST ANGIOSARCOMA - CASE REPORT
Kardum-Skelin I1 , Jelić-Puškarić B1 , Milas M1 , Vidić-Paulišić I2 , Jakić-Razumović J3 ,
Šeparović V4 1Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Department of Medicine, Laboratory for Cytology
ang Hematology, Zagreb,Croatia
2 County Hospital Čakovec, Čakovec, Croatia
3 Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Pathology, Zagreb, Croatia
4 School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Zagreb, Croatia
Angiosarcoma is a rare disease of the breast with the reported incidence of only 0.04% of
all breast malignancies. The etiology of angiosarcoma remains unknown. It occurs postmastectomy,
in association with chronic lymphedema or after radiotherapy. We present
a patient with angiosarcoma that developed 12 years after the diagnosis of breast carcinoma
and 8 years after operative procedure for disease recurrence and radiotherapy.
A small angiomatous lesion of a few mm in size, cytologically suspect of vascular tumor
(hemangioma or hemangiopericytoma), histopathologically verified to be atypical
vascular lesion, was detected two years before breast enlargement and cytologic and
histologic diagnosis of angiosarcoma. The patient died 15 months after the diagnosis of
angiosarcoma, after two tumor recurrences and intrathoracic cavity invasion.
ika.kardum-skelin@zg.t-com.hr
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