Why the study?
Can retained foreign body material induce angiosarcoma in humans?
Population
3 patients with angiosarcoma that occurred in intimate association with foreign material retained for…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
Latency periods of from 4 months to 63 years
Authors
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Retained foreign material may be linked to angiosarcoma; case reports leave open causality and should not change practice.
Can retained foreign body material induce angiosarcoma in humans?
This report suggests that implanted foreign material should be considered capable of inducing virtually any form of sarcoma, including angiosarcoma, in humans.
Jennings et al. (1988) studied this question.
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