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Imaging studies revealed diffuse skin thickening in all quadrants and an intensely opaque axillary lymph node (LN). Interestingly, the patient had prior medical history of breast carcinoma treated conservatively in 2007 with limited breast resection and left axillary lymphadenectomy, followed by post-operative chemotherapy and radiotherapy. At the current presentation, we performed a radical mastectomy with ipsilateral lymphadenectomy. The histopathological examination revealed a secondary angiosarcoma with LN involvement mimicking an atypical vascular lesion. 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