Why the study?
Cutaneous angiosarcoma is an aggressive soft-tissue malignancy that is challenging to treat with poor prognosis due to frequent recurrence and metastasis.
Case Report (n=1)
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Wide excision with nasolabial advancement flap followed by radiotherapy can be an effective treatment for cutaneous angiosarcoma of the nasal ala without recurrence at 1 year.
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Should not yet change practice for nasal ala angiosarcoma; case report leaves open questions of durability and generalizability.
A cutaneous angiosarcoma is an aggressive soft-tissue malignant tumor which could rapidly grow up and easily spread. Treatment is challenging in most cases and the prognosis is poor because of frequent local recurrence and distant metastasis. The authors introduce a very rare case of cutaneous angiosarcoma which was risen in nasal cavity and cutaneous ala treated with nasolabial advancement flap.
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Kim et al. (2022) conducted a case report in Cutaneous angiosarcoma (n=1). Surgical excision and nasolabial advancement flap reconstruction with adjuvant radiotherapy was evaluated on Tumor recurrence.
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