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70-year-old female with Stewart-Treves syndrome. Photograph of the left arm demonstrates an area of violaceous skin with surrounding satellite lesions.
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The enlarging plaque of coalescing purple papules appeared necrotic, with multiple small satellite lesions that had erupted within the plaque (Fig. 1).
70-year-old female with Stewart-Treves syndrome. A: T1-weighted image. B: STIR image demonstrating edema-like signal in the subcutaneous tissues of the arm (arrows).
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70-year-old female with Stewart-Treves syndrome. Axial PET (A) and CT images(B) demonstrate a hypemetabolic region along the posterior left arm with marked subcutaneous edema and skin thickening on CT (white arrows).
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It was associated with severe subcutaneous edema confined to the left arm without evidence of adenopathy or distant metastasis (Fig. 3).