Low-Grade Uterine Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Presented as a Submucosal Leiomyoma during Labor

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 litera...

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Main Authors: Anastasios V. Koutsopoulos (Author), Efthimios Sivridis (Author), Panagiotis Tsikouras (Author), Vasileios Liberis (Author), Georgia Karpathiou (Author), Alexandra Giatromanolaki (Author)
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Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:2090-6781
2090-679X
10.1155/2013/423584