Case Report
Primary Angiosarcoma of the Thyroid in an Asian Woman: A Case Report with Review of the Literature
Table 1
Clinical features of enclosed patients (59 cases).
| Tumor characteristics | Case number (%) |
| Size of tumor | | <5 cm | 13 (22.0%) | ≧5 cm | 33 (55.9%) | No specified | 13 (22.0%) | Extrathyroidal extension | | Present | 21 (35.6%) | Not identified/not mentioned | 38 (64.4%) | Local recurrence | | Present | 16 (27.1%) | Not identified/not mentioned | 43 (72.9%) | Metastasis throughout the whole course | | Not found | 33 (58.9%) | LNs (mediastinal, cervical, supraclavicular, mediastinal, and paratracheal) | 8 (14.3%) | Lungs/pleura | 17 | Bone/bone marrow | 4 | Brain | 3 | Skin | 1 | Esophagus | 1 | N/A | 3 (including our case) |
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