Angiosarcoma following teratocarcinoma: "mutation", successive malignancy or irradiation
Räz, H.R.; Maurer, R.; von Hochstetter, A.; Hegglin, J.
Helvetica Chirurgica Acta 56(3): 355-357
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0018-0181 PMID: 2807966 Document Number: 330625
Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant soft-tissue tumor and affects preferably skin and adjacent subcutaneous tissue. Very rarely the tumor is radiation-induced. We report the case of a 28-year-old Swiss who developed an angiosarcoma of the gut 5 years after the successful therapy of metastasising teratocarcinoma of his right testis by surgery and radiation therapy. We discuss three possible etiologies for the genesis of the angiosarcoma, which appeared rapidly after the primary tumor at an unusual site in an unusual patient.