Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology (Jan 2014)

Multifocal hemangioendotheliomas of bone mimicking metastases

  • Vikram Narang,
  • Bhavna Garg,
  • Neena Sood,
  • Harpreet Kaur

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0377-4929.142692
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 57, no. 4
pp. 609 – 610

Abstract

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Hemangioendotheliomas are rare vascular tumors that can arise from soft tissue or bone. The former comprises hemangioma, epithelioidhemangioma, hemangiomatosis and massiveosteolysis or Gorham′s disease (which mimics malignantneoplasm due to aggressive osteolytic destruction). The rarer malignant counterparts are epithelioidhemangioendothelioma, hemangioendothelioma and angiosarcoma in increasing order of malignancy. The diagnosis of these lesions is difficult both clinically and radiologically. Hereby we report an unusual case which was mistaken for metastasis and was diagnosed with the help of histopathology.

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