Appelqvist P, Salmo M, Rissanen P, Wiklund T
Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.
Strahlenther Onkol. 1990 Mar;166(3):194-8.
We have reported on four previously unpublished cases of postmastectomy lymphangiosarcoma. All of these cases had suffered from a long-lasting lymphedema of the upper extremity. Only one patient had survived over one year. After radiotherapy she lived four years from first lesion of lymphangiosarcoma. She died locally disease-free in spite of two earlier recurrences, which were also treated with radiotherapy. We believe that only in early cases can the radiotherapy give a good palliation in postmastectomy lymphangiosarcoma.
