J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 95(11): 843-846, 1994

Case report

A CASE OF ANGIOSARCOMA WITH VON RECKLINGHAUSEN’S DISEASE

1) Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
2) Department of Pathology, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

Akishige Kanazawa1), Masayuki Higashino1), Chizu Shiokawa1), Harushi Osugi1), Hiroaki Kinoshita1), Takatsugu Yamamoto2), Masami Sakurai2)

We treated a patient with von Recklinghausen's disease and angiosarcoma. This combination has not been reported in Japan to the best of our knowledge. An emergency operation for massive gastrointestinal bleeding was performed on a 68-year-old woman with von Recklinghausen's disease, who had been known to have a retroperitoneal tumor ; The bleeding was controlled and the tumor was also resected. Postoperative course was uneventful also but one month after operation intra-abdominal and intrathoracic bleeding developed, and the patient died of respiratory failure. Autopsy showed hemorrhagic lesions, which were diagnosed pathologically metastatic angiosarcoma. The possibility of hemorrhagic lesions in the patients with von Reckllinghausen's disease should be kept in mind.

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