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Stewart-Treves syndrome in a patient with elephantiasis
D Hallel-Halevy1, J Yerushalmi, M H Grunwald
1Department of Dermatology, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, 84101, Israel. dafnah@bgumail.gu.ac.il
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|July 30, 1999
Abstract:
Angiosarcoma that develops in areas of chronic lymphedema is also called Stewart-Treves syndrome. It usually appears in areas of lymphedema several years after mastectomy for breast carcinoma. Only 10% of these angiosarcomas occur in areas of chronic lymphedema as a result of another cause. We present a patient with epithelioid angiosarcoma as a rare complication of elephantiasis.