Ruptured angiosarcoma of the liver treated by emergency catheter-directed embolization

Table 1 Case reports focusing on patients with hepatic AS undergoing surgery and/or embolization from 1995 to 2005

Reference	Year1	Number2	Age (yr)	Sex (M/F)	Clinical symptoms	Surgery	Resectionmargin	Additive Therapy	Metastasis at presentation	Emergency	Survival
Tordjman et al[26]	1995	1	34	M	?	No		Chemo-embolization	No	Yes	15 mo
Timaran et al[28]	2000	1	47	F	Right upper quadrant discomfort	Right hepatic lobectomy	Negative	No	No	No	Alive (120 mo postoperative)
Kirschstein et al[29]	2000	1	73	F	Abdominal pain	Right hepatectomy	Positive	No	Yes	No	6 wk
Hoppe et al[25]	2001	1	72	F	Pain, weight loss, hemodynamic instability	Liver segment resection	?	Preoperative embolization	No	Spontaneous rupture	2 wk
Ozden et al[9]	2003	1	54	F	?	Right hepatectomy + relaparotomy	Positive/negative	Postoperative chemo-embolization	No	No	64 mo
Horger[24] and Fendel	2003	1	69	F	Right upper quadrant pain, bleeding	Right hepatectomy	?	Preoperative embolization	No	Spontaneous rupture	?
Almogy et al[7]	2004	2	33	F	Bleeding, right upper quadrant pain	Right hepatectomy	?	No	No	Yes	Died intra-operatively
			68	M	Bleeding	Right hepatectomy	Positive	Post-operative chemotherapy	No	Yes	7 mo

¹Year of publication;

²number of patients.