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Successful treatment of primary pulmonary angiosarcoma.
Keisuke Kojima,Isamu Okamoto,Sunao Ushijima,Takeshi Yoshinaga,Mitsuhiko Kitaoka,Moritaka Suga,Yutaka Sasaki +6 more
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The case of a patient with primary pulmonary angiosarcoma who responded to a combination of radiotherapy and immunotherapy with recombinant interleukin-2 is reported, and the patient remains well without signs of recurrence 1 year after initial presentation.About:
This article is published in Chest.The article was published on 2003-12-01. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Angiosarcoma & Hemangiosarcoma.read more
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Primary vascular tumors of the lungs: a review
TL;DR: The clinicopathologic, immunophenotypical, ultrastructural, and molecular biologic characteristics of primary vascular tumors of the lungs are discussed and the tumoral conditions that will be addressed include hemangioma, lymphangiomas, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and Kaposi's sarcoma are addressed.
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Cardiac angiosarcoma: histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and cytogenetic analysis of 10 cases
Charles Leduc,Sarah M. Jenkins,William R. Sukov,William R. Sukov,Jeannette G Rustin,Joseph J. Maleszewski +5 more
TL;DR: Several recurrent cytogenetic aberrations were identified in cardiac AS, including trisomies in chromosomes 4, 8, 11, 17, 20, as well as 1q+, and homozygous deletion of CDKN2, which may have prognostic or predictive implications.
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Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma. Problems in the differential diagnosis.
Domenico Attinà,Fabio Niro,Patrick Tchouante,Giangaspare Mineo,Vincenzo Russo,Massimiliano Palazzini,Nazzareno Galiè,Stefano Fanti,Luigi Lovato,Maurizio Zompatori +9 more
TL;DR: Combining CT and PET-CT proved to be extremely useful in assessing patients with suspected PAS and early diagnosis with the help of integrated imaging remains today the main direction to pursue in order to obtain improvements in prognosis.
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Complete radiographic response of primary pulmonary angiosarcomas following gemcitabine and taxotere.
TL;DR: It is reported that the combination of gemcitabine and docetaxel may be an effective regimen for the treatment of angiosarcoma, as illustrated by the complete radiological response observed.
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Angiosarcoma of the lung: 2 cases report and literature reviewed
Yan-bin Chen,Ling-chuan Guo,Ling Yang,Wei Feng,Xiu-qin Zhang,Chun-hua Ling,Cheng Ji,Jianan Huang +7 more
TL;DR: Two cases of angiosarcoma involved the lung were presented, and it was confirmed that case 2 was confirmed as a primary pulmonary angiosaris, a kind of malignant tumors derived from vascular endothelial cell.
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Angiosarcoma treated with radiotherapy: impact of tumor type and size on outcome.
Ryohei Sasaki,Toshinori Soejima,Kazushi Kishi,Yoshinari Imajo,Saeko Hirota,Norihiko Kamikonya,Masao Murakami,Tetsuya Kawabe,Tetsuya Kawabe,Yasuo Ejima,Akira Matsumoto,Kazuo Sugimura +11 more
TL;DR: RT, combined with complete resection or adjuvant rIL-2 immunotherapy, could be a promising treatment strategy, leading to prolonged survival in patients with angiosarcoma.