%0 Journal Article
%T Splenic Angiosarcoma: A Diagnostic Splenectomy Finding
%A Bruna do Nascimento Santos
%A Juliano Fernandes da Costa
%A Nelson de Souza Liboni
%A Olimpio Daniel de Campos
%A Otavio Schmidt de Azevedo
%J Archive of "Case Reports in Oncology".
%D 2016
%R 10.1159/000452619
%X Splenic tumors are not frequent. Blood vessel neoplasms are a rare category of tumors and have an extremely low incidence in the spleen. This case report aims to describe a 57-year-old woman in whom a routine imaging examination had shown splenic cysts. During her follow-up, the cysts became larger and increased in number. A diagnostic splenectomy was performed and its analysis showed a rare splenic angiosarcoma
%K Angiosarcoma
%K Soft-tissue sarcoma
%K Splenic angiosarcoma
%K Angiosarcoma of the spleen
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5126591/