A case of breast angiosarcoma: diagnostic imaging and review of the literature

Abstract

Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumor, with approximately 170 cases reported in the literature (1-3, 10, 11, 15). Reports on the imaging characteristics of these tumors have been occasional until a recent review by Liberman et al. (11). Diagnostic imaging of the masses include mammographic and ultrasound examinations (5): the imaging characteristics of the tumor can be nonspecific and sometimes heterogeneous (11). Only recently was one case evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging (11). We present the mammographic and sonographic features of a case of primary angiosarcoma of the breast with an inflammatory appearance.