Treatment of Epithelioid angiosarcoma with Topical ALA-PDT in the course of surgery

Publication date: Available online 12 May 2017
Source:Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
Author(s): Yang Gao, Wen-sheng Wang, Hai-lin Wang, Jia Liu, Yuan-gang Lu
BackgroundEpithelioid angiosarcoma is a kind of high grade malignancy sarcoma of soft tissue, which is hard to diagnose and completely exsect without causing functional and cosmetic problems. Moreover, the high rate of recurrence is hard to handle. Photodynamic therapy is a novel treatment protocol which can selectively destroy tumor cell with good functional and cosmetic outcomes.MethodsThis is a case about a 81 years old patient with Epithelioid angiosarcoma in the right medial angle of eye, which received surgery and photodynamic therapy.ResultsThere is no recurrence in one year after treatment of surgery and photodynamic therapy in the course of surgery.ConclusionsExcision combined with photodynamic therapy during operation is a promising strategy towards tumors which is hard to exsect thoroughly and have a high risk of recurrence.



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