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SAGE OPEN MEDICAL CASE REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2050313X18796343
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Elephantiasis; lower extremity lymphedema; Kaposi's sarcoma; angiosarcoma; Stewart-Treves syndrome
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Chronic lymphedema is rarely complicated by an angiosarcoma. Angiosarcoma superimposed on chronic lymphedema (Stewart-Treves syndrome) is usually seen post breast cancer surgery accompanied by lymph node resection of the axilla. This is a case report of a 59-year-old male patient with elephantiasis that developed an angiosarcoma of the lower leg. He died a month after the diagnostic biopsy was obtained. This is a rare multifocal tumor in a male with an unusual lower leg location. We reviewed the literature and the need to differentiate this often deadly lesion from a Kaposi's sarcoma.
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