Postirradiation angiosarcoma

A 61-year-old woman developed a cutaneous angiosarcoma of the lower abdomen in the site where she had received radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix uteri 23 years earlier. The rarity of this event and the dermatologist's general unfamiliarity with this late complication of radiation therapy have prompted a review of cutaneous postirradiation angiosarcoma.