Key result
Surgical excision of symptomatic lesions followed by chemotherapy resulted in mild reduction of lesions and moderate symptomatic improvement without metastasis in a patient with recurrent ASPS.
Case Report (n=1)
Surgical excision of symptomatic lesions followed by chemotherapy may provide symptomatic improvement in rare cases of alveolar soft-part sarcoma with multiple lesions.
May offer symptomatic relief in recurrent ASPS; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Alveolar soft-part sarcoma (ASPS) is an extremely rare disease arising from connective tissues with a propensity for recurrence and metastasis. Clinically, it can be confused with hemangioma or arterio-venous malformations. Thus, a high index of suspicion and histopathological examination are required to make a definitive diagnosis. We report a case of recurrent ASPS in a young female with multiple sites involvement without any features of metastasis who has been treated with excision of the symptomatic lesions followed by chemotherapy.
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Sarkar et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Alveolar soft-part sarcoma (n=1). Surgical excision followed by chemotherapy was evaluated on Symptomatic improvement and lesion reduction. Surgical excision of symptomatic lesions followed by chemotherapy resulted in mild reduction of lesions and moderate symptomatic improvement without metastasis in a patient with recurrent ASPS.
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