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Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an uncommon malignant vascular tumour usually involving soft tissue and rarely only skin. It is considered to be a borderline neoplasm between angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia and an epithelioid angiosarcoma and is mostly found in adults with few cases...

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Autor principal: Sachdeva, Silonie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386269
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e17
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description Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an uncommon malignant vascular tumour usually involving soft tissue and rarely only skin. It is considered to be a borderline neoplasm between angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia and an epithelioid angiosarcoma and is mostly found in adults with few cases reported in children. We herein report a case of ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an infant of 8 months. This tumour has not been reported at such a young age in literature.
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spelling pubmed-42115332014-11-10 Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant Sachdeva, Silonie Dermatol Reports Case Report Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an uncommon malignant vascular tumour usually involving soft tissue and rarely only skin. It is considered to be a borderline neoplasm between angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia and an epithelioid angiosarcoma and is mostly found in adults with few cases reported in children. We herein report a case of ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an infant of 8 months. This tumour has not been reported at such a young age in literature. PAGEPress Publications 2011-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4211533/ /pubmed/25386269 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e17 Text en ©Copyright S. Sachdeva, 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
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Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title_full Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title_fullStr Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title_full_unstemmed Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title_short Ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
title_sort ulcerated cutaneous epithelioid hemangioendothelioma in an 8-month old infant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386269
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/dr.2011.e17
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