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Yang Gao1, Wen-Sheng Wang1, Hai-Lin Wang1
1Department of Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery, Research Institute of Surgery, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, PR China.
Background:
Epithelioid angiosarcoma is a high grade malignancy sarcoma of soft tissue, which is hard to diagnose and completely excise without causing functional and cosmetic problems. Moreover, the high rate of recurrence is hard to salvage. Photodynamic therapy is a novel treatment protocol which can selectively destroy tumor cell with good functional and cosmetic outcomes.
Methods:
This is a case about a 81 years old patient with Epithelioid angiosarcoma in the right medial angle of eye, which received surgery and ALA photodynamic therapy.
Results:
There is no recurrence in one year after treatment of surgery and photodynamic therapy in the course of surgery.
Conclusions:
Excision combined with photodynamic therapy during operation is a promising strategy towards tumors which are hard to resect thoroughly and have a high risk of recurrence.
