Journal article
Post-radiation atypical vascular proliferation on the head of a young woman: a diagnostic challenge
Dermatology online journal, Vol.21(6)
06/16/2015
PMID: 26158365
Abstract
With improved outcomes associated with radiotherapy (RT), post-irradiation tumors are increasingly seen in long-term cancer survivors. We report a case of a young woman who presented with a three-year history of a vascular lesion on the temple, previously irradiated for a childhood brain tumor. The history of radiation, the clinical appearance, and the biopsy findings of an atypical vascular proliferation in the dermis, were worrisome for a malignant vascular neoplasm and prompted surgical excision. However, further tissue analysis of the excised specimen confirmed a benign atypical vascular lesion (AVL) overlying a banal pilar cyst. Distinguishing post-radiation benign from malignant vascular lesions can be difficult because they share overlapping clinical and histopathologic features. Thus, any vascular lesion that occurs in a previously irradiated field should be excised completely with tumor-free margins and examined histologically.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Post-radiation atypical vascular proliferation on the head of a young woman: a diagnostic challenge
- Creators
- Andrea Suarez - Weill Cornell Medical CollegeHillary Johnson-JahangirGarrett DesmanAndrew Avarbock
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Dermatology online journal, Vol.21(6)
- Publisher
- United States
- PMID
- 26158365
- ISSN
- 1087-2108
- eISSN
- 1087-2108
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/16/2015
- Academic Unit
- Dermatology
- Record Identifier
- 9984025565402771
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