Primary eyelid angiosarcoma in a Chinese patient

Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2015 Jul 1;8(7):8636-8. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Purpose: To describe a case of primary eyelid angiosarcoma and review the literature to emphasize aware of this rare disease.

Case report: We report a further case which is the first Chinese primary eyelid angiosarcoma in the literature. A 76-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of a painless lesion on her left eyelid. The patient finally proved to be angiosarcoma on histopathologic and be treated with complete surgical excision with a frozen section margin control. With a 6 months follow-up, we haven't found any symptoms of recurrence or metastasis.

Conclusions: Cutaneous angiosarcoma with eyelid is a rare, soft-tissue sarcoma of endothelial cell origin that is aggressive malignancy and has a poor prognosis. In our case report, the patient was treated with complete surgical excision with a frozen section margin control, and a 6 months follow-up, we haven't found any symptoms of recurrence or metastasis.

Keywords: Eyelid; angiosarcoma; eye; surgical resection; tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis
  • Biopsy
  • China
  • Eyelid Neoplasms / chemistry
  • Eyelid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Eyelid Neoplasms / surgery
  • Female
  • Hemangiosarcoma / chemistry
  • Hemangiosarcoma / pathology*
  • Hemangiosarcoma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Skin Neoplasms / chemistry
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Skin Neoplasms / surgery
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor