Metastatic Angiosarcoma of the Scalp Causing Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome

We report a case of thrombocytopenia caused by Kasabach–Merritt syndrome (KMS) in a 69-year-old man with a metastatic angiosarcoma of the scalp. A review of the literature revealed that only 4 cases of KMS associated with angiosarcoma have been previously reported. All these cases occurred with a so...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of the medical sciences 2007-05, Vol.333 (5), p.293-295
Hauptverfasser:	Salameh, Fares, Henig, Israel, Maza, Itay, Bar-Shalom, Rachel
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Angiosarcoma Biological and medical sciences Dermatology Fatal Outcome General aspects Head and Neck Neoplasms - complications Head and Neck Neoplasms - pathology Hemangioma, Capillary - complications Hemangioma, Capillary - pathology Hemangiosarcoma - complications Hemangiosarcoma - pathology Hemangiosarcoma - secondary Hereditary diseases of the skin. Congenital diseases of the skin. Haemangioma of the skin, of mucosae and of soft tissue Humans Kasabach-Merritt syndrome Male Medical sciences Metastasis Neoplasm Metastasis Scalp Skin Neoplasms - complications Skin Neoplasms - pathology Syndrome Thrombocytopenia - complications
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Zusammenfassung:	We report a case of thrombocytopenia caused by Kasabach–Merritt syndrome (KMS) in a 69-year-old man with a metastatic angiosarcoma of the scalp. A review of the literature revealed that only 4 cases of KMS associated with angiosarcoma have been previously reported. All these cases occurred with a solitary large lesion. This is the first case of thrombocytopenia caused by KMS associated with small metastatic lesions of angiosarcoma that developed after the primary lesion has been completely removed.
ISSN:	0002-9629 1538-2990
DOI:	10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318053e1e5