Sharma Ashwini, DeValeria Patrick A, Scherber Robyn M, Sugrue Gavin, McCullough Ann E, Panse Prasad M, Mookadam Farouk
Tex Heart Inst J. 2016 Feb 1;43(1):81-3. doi: 10.14503/THIJ-14-4549. eCollection 2016 Feb.
Therapeutic radiotherapy rarely causes sarcoma, and this occurs years after completion of the intended treatment. In treating breast carcinoma, careful planning in the application of modern radiotherapeutic techniques usually can shield the heart and pericardium. We report a rare case of angiosarcoma of the pericardium, which presented in a 41-year-old woman as constrictive pericarditis 8 years after irradiation for cancer of the left breast. To our knowledge, this is only the 2nd report of angiosarcoma of the pericardium after radiotherapy.
治疗性放射疗法很少引发肉瘤,且这种情况在预期治疗结束数年之后才会出现。在治疗乳腺癌时,运用现代放射治疗技术进行精心规划通常能够保护心脏和心包。我们报告了一例罕见的心包血管肉瘤病例,该病例发生在一名41岁女性身上,她在左侧乳腺癌放疗8年后出现缩窄性心包炎。据我们所知,这是放疗后心包血管肉瘤的第二例报告。