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- Title
Intravenous tufted angioma.
- Authors
Fukunaga, Masaharu
- Abstract
A case of a rare vascular tumor, intravenous tufted angioma, is described. A 51-year-old Japanese man presented with a 12x8 mm solitary reddish nodule on the right foot, which had been found at birth. Histologically, the tumor was confined to a malformed vein and was characterized by nodular aggregates of plump cells. The aggregates showed a compact proliferation of round cells, including capillary-forming cells. Venous angiomatous areas were also observed. No multinucleated giant cells were seen. Immunohistochemically, the capillary-forming cells in the aggregates and the endothelial cells in the angiomatous areas were positive for endothelial markers (factor VIII-related antigen, CD31, CD34). Pericyte-like cells expressing α-smooth muscle actin and muscle actin, and macrophage-like cells, which stained for factor XIIIa, were intermingled in the cellular aggregates. Flow cytometric analysis showed diploidy. The tumor may be a hamartomatous lesion modified by secondary reactive changes, and it may represent a distinctive clinicopathological entity that is closely related histogenetically and perhaps pathologically to tufted angioma and the recently described 'giant cell angioblastoma'.
- Publication
APMIS, 2000, Vol 108, Issue 4, p287
- ISSN
0903-4641
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0463.2000.d01-58.x