Stewart Treves Syndrome in a Woman with Mastectomy
Published: February 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.7288
Sevil Alan, Habibullah Aktas, Ömer, Faik Ersoy, Alpay Aktümen, Harun Erol
1. Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Akdeniz University School of Medicine, Turkey.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Karabük Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Karabük Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Karabük Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
5. Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Karabük Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
Correspondence
Dr. Sevil Alan,
Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hastanesi, 07070, Antalya, Turkey.
E-mail: alan_sevil@yahoo.com
Stewart Treves Syndrome is an angiosarcoma generally seen long time after radical mastectomy in breast carcinoma patients in chronic lymphoedema area. It's an angiosarcoma developed on a long standing lymphoedema, following a radical mastectomy. An 86-year-old woman was referred to our Dermatology outpatient clinic which developed a giant erythematous, oedematous, purplish lobulated plaque on her right forearm anteromedially with a few satellite erythematous papulonodules on her arm. The pathology revealed spindle-shaped tumour cells invading dermis with vascular differentiation into the subcutaneus tissue which are compatible with a diagnosis of angiosarcoma.
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