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Federico Bucci1, Frederic Robert, Leslie Fiengo
1Department of Vascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Sud Gironde, Langon, France. federicobucci@hotmail.fr
Abstract:
Treatment of breast cancer involves surgery, then perhaps radiation, hormonal or chemotherapy. Radiation-induced arterial injury is a well-known entity that represents a rare cause of arterial occlusion. We present the case of a 76-year old woman who complained of a severe intermittent claudication of the right upper limb. Twenty years before, she underwent a right-sided radical mastectomy followed by intense radiation therapy for several weeks. The patient was found to suffer of a radiotherapy-related axillary artery thrombosis and was successfully treated by angioplasty and stenting.
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