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Portable Thermographic Screening for Detection of Acute Wallenberg's Syndrome
Published on: September 19, 2019
[Stewart-Treves syndrome]
Miguel Echenique-Elizondo1, Ana Tuneu-Valls, José Zubizarreta
1Unidad Docente de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain. gepecelm@sc.ehu.es
Abstract:
Lymphangiosarcoma is an uncommon vascular tumor that usually develops in longstanding lymphedema. We gathered the cases of lymphangioma observed in a hospital and attempted to analyze their characteristics: age, sex, localization, treatment and follow-up data. We studied five cases: three cases of Stewart-Treves syndrome after mastectomy and radiotherapy and two cases that developed in patients with late-onset congenital lymphedema. There were four women and one man. Radical surgery was performed in four patients. The techniques employed were: above-knee amputation (one patient), hip disarticulation (one patient), scapulo-humeral disarticulation (two patients) and gemcitabine and radiotherapy in one patient with metastatic disease at diagnosis. Three patients died in the first 14 months of follow-up, while two are disease free after 46 and 86 months respectively. This study confirms the poor prognosis of patients with Steward-Treves syndrome.
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