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MAX JESSNER, M.D.; FREDERICK G. ZAK; CHARLES R. REIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;65(2):123-129.

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The SYNDROME characterized by the appearance of cutaneous lymphangiosarcoma in the ipsilateral arm, years after radical mastectomy for carcinoma, has been described by Stewart and Treves.¹ We had occasion to see a patient with this until recently unknown disorder.

REPORT OF A CASE

A. N., a 54-year-old, white, single woman, a patient of Dr. H. Wadro, had a radical mastectomy in 1942 for carcinoma of the left breast, with axillary node involvement, followed by extensive x-ray treatment and, several months later, by radium therapy to the axilla.

Edema of the left arm developed shortly after the operation but regressed to about 50% in recent years. It was most conspicuous above the left elbow, where the arm measured 11 in. (29 cm.) as compared with 8 in. (20.3 cm.) above the right elbow.

In April, 1949, the patient noticed bluish, firm, raised nodules on the inner aspect of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York University-Bellevue Medical Center (Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, Chairman), and New York Skin and Cancer Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented at the Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, May 26, 1951, Hot Springs, Va.

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