Low-Grade Uterine Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Presented as a Submucosal Leiomyoma during Labor
Author(s) -
Anastasios Koutsopoulos,
Efthimios Sivridis,
Panagiotis Tsikouras,
Vasileios Liberis,
Georgia Karpathiou,
Alexandra Giatromanolaki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
case reports in pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-6781
pISSN - 2090-679X
DOI - 10.1155/2013/423584
Subject(s) - epithelioid hemangioendothelioma , medicine , hemangioendothelioma , pathology , immunohistochemistry , uterus , leiomyoma , differential diagnosis
With the exception of leiomyomas, soft tissue tumors of the uterine corpus are not common. This is particularly true for vascular neoplasms, with the epithelioid hemangioendothelioma being a curiosity; not more than twenty-two cases of malignant hemangioendotheliomas have been reported in the literature so far, all of which were high-grade hemangioendotheliomas (hemangiosarcomas). We present herewith a unique case of low-grade epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the uterus in a pregnant woman aged 29 years. The clinical, histological, and immunohistochemical characteristics of this entity, together with its differential diagnosis, are discussed.
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