K. Conn et al., RUPTURE OF THE SPLEEN IN A PATIENT WITH METASTATIC ANGIOSARCOMA OF THE BREAST, European journal of surgical oncology, 24(2), 1998, pp. 152-152
Angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour. We report a young woman w
ho required an urgent mastectomy for bleeding. Metastatic disease resu
lted in her spleen rupturing after minor abdominal trauma, This has no
t been previously described.