0 a tumour of the cells that line small blood vessels that is malignant (= is likely to lead to death if not treated):
The angiosarcoma, due to its invasive nature, required extensive resection, after which pericardial patches were needed to reconstruct the right atrium and the septum.
Metastases were not found in the patient with the malignant angiosarcoma.
Four patients had tumors, these being rhabdomyomas in two, and a myxoma and an angiosarcoma each in one patient, respectively.
Our nine-year-old patient with acute hemorrhagic tamponade had an angiosarcoma which invaded the right and the left atrium together with the pericardium.
Further investigation of chemotherapy for cutaneous angiosarcoma should be done.
The angiosarcoma invaded both right and left atrial chambers together with the pericardium.
The term angiosarcoma, when used without modifier, usually refers to hemangiosarcoma.
Lymphedema is also associated with a low grade form of cancer called retiform hemangioendothelioma (a low grade angiosarcoma).
