Angiosarcoma of the breast associated with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

S H Y Moussa; A L K Oliveira; A P de Amorim; D Scandiuzzi; E F C Murta; S Soares

doi:10.1007/s004040100224

Angiosarcoma of the breast associated with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2002 Nov;267(1):43-5. doi: 10.1007/s004040100224.

Authors

S H Y Moussa¹, A L K Oliveira, A P de Amorim, D Scandiuzzi, E F C Murta, S Soares

Affiliation

¹ Department of Imaging Science, Faculty of Medicine, Triângulo Mineiro, Av. Getúlio Guaritá, s/n0 Bairro Abadia, 38025-440, Uberaba, MG, Brazil.

PMID: 12410374
DOI: 10.1007/s004040100224

Abstract

We report a 55-year-old white woman with an angiosarcoma of the left breast, anemia and thromobocytopenia due to a consumptive coagulopathy (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome).

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / complications
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Fatal Outcome
Female
Hemangiosarcoma / complications
Hemangiosarcoma / diagnosis*
Hemangiosarcoma / diagnostic imaging
Hemangiosarcoma / pathology
Humans
Middle Aged
Syndrome
Thrombocytopenia / blood
Thrombocytopenia / complications*
Ultrasonography