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Partial liver resection was successfully performed on a 43-year-old male with HIV and metastatic liver angiosarcoma originating from the large intestine, who was discharged in satisfactory condition.
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This case report describes a rare presentation of primary angiosarcoma of the large intestine with metastasis to the liver in an HIV-positive patient, treated with surgical resection.
Successful resection in rare HIV-metastatic angiosarcoma case; leaves open broader surgical role and requires prospective validation.
Angiosarcoma is a rare malignant tumour of endothelial origin with a poor prognosis; significantly, patients with intestinal angiosarcoma who survive over 1 year after diagnosis are extraordinarily rare. This article describes the case of a 43-year-old patient with HIV infection who presented with abdominal pain of 4 months duration along with swelling in the right upper part of abdomen which had increased in severity 4 weeks prior to presentation. After a complicated diagnostic process, the diagnosis of metastatic liver angiosarcoma was made by history and imaging. We reviewed previous cases of angiosarcoma described in the English literature to determine their risk factors, diagnosis and treatment, and we found that angiosarcoma is extremely rare, especially metastatic liver angiosarcoma. To the best of our knowledge, this may be the first case of primary angiosarcoma of the large intestine with metastasis to the liver reported in the English literature.
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Sapam Opendro Singh (2017) conducted a case report in Metastatic liver angiosarcoma (n=1). Partial liver resection (Left hepatectomy and non-anatomical resection of right lobe) was evaluated on Clinical outcome post-surgery. Partial liver resection was successfully performed on a 43-year-old male with HIV and metastatic liver angiosarcoma originating from the large intestine, who was discharged in satisfactory condition.
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