Difference between revisions of "Vascular tumours"

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 Epidemiology:
-*May arise secondary to therapeutic radiation or chronic lymphoedema related to breast carcinoma.
+*May arise secondary to chronic lymphedema related to breast carcinoma.
-*Liver angiosarcomas are assoc. with vinyl chloride exposure.<ref>{{Ref PCPBoD8|212}}</ref>
+**Known as ''Stewart–Treves syndrome''.<ref name=pmid18753651>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Pincus | first1 = LB. | last2 = Fox | first2 = LP. | title = Images in clinical medicine. The Stewart-Treves syndrome. | journal = N Engl J Med | volume = 359 | issue = 9 | pages = 950 | month = Aug | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1056/NEJMicm071344 | PMID = 18753651 }}</ref>
+*[[Liver]] angiosarcomas are associated with vinyl chloride exposure.<ref>{{Ref PCPBoD8|212}}</ref>
 ===Microscopic===