This case report highlights the rare occurrence of angiosarcoma in the prostate following radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma.
Consider angiosarcoma in post-radiotherapy prostate masses; single case leaves open incidence and causality.
Angiosarcomas are high-grade sarcomas of vascular origin that rarely arise in the prostate. We describe a unique case of angiosarcoma arising in the prostate 10 years after radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate. A review of literature regarding angiosarcomas of prostate is also discussed.
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