[An unusual form of neoplastic lymphangitis in an irradiated field]

The authors describe an exceptional form of neoplastic lymphangitis occurring in old people some years after surgery and irradiation of a cancer (parotid, breast), the special character of which is that it draws exactly the fields of irradiation. This lymphangitis is at first smooth and later covered with neoplastic nodes which join together. Evolution is in any case the death after some weeks or months. Different pathogenetic hypotheses are discussed, involving the mechanisms of biology of cancer and radiations.