Examples of angiosarcoma

• 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).