Key result
First reported vaginal epithelioid angiosarcoma highlights critical diagnostic confusion with carcinoma.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the first described instance of epithelioid angiosarcoma in the vagina, a variant easily confused with carcinoma.
Vaginal epithelioid angiosarcoma should enter the carcinoma differential; leaves open its natural history and management pending further cases.
A case of epithelioid angiosarcoma of the vagina is described. Only five cases of angiosarcoma at this site have been reported, three of which followed radiotherapy for other gynaecological malignancies. None is described as an epithelioid angiosarcoma, an unusual and recently described variant which is readily confused with carcinoma. This is thought to be the first reported epithelioid angiosarcoma at this site and highlights the difficulties in diagnosis.
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McAdam et al. (1998) conducted a case report in Epithelioid angiosarcoma of the vagina (n=1). This represents the first reported case of epithelioid angiosarcoma of the vagina, an unusual variant that is readily confused with carcinoma, highlighting significant diagnostic difficulties.