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===Microscopic===
===Microscopic===
Features:<ref>Klatt. AOP P.23.</ref>
Features:<ref>Klatt. AOP P.23.</ref>
*Vascular channels that anastomose.
*Vascular channels that anastomose - '''key feature'''.
*+/-Nuclear atypia.
*+/-Nuclear atypia.
*Hyaline globules - pale pink globs (that are paler than RBCs) - '''key feature'''.
*Hyaline globules (intracytoplasmic)<ref name=pmid7528163>{{cite journal |author=del Rosario AD, Bui HX, Singh J, Ginsburg R, Ross JS |title=Intracytoplasmic eosinophilic hyaline globules in cartilaginous neoplasms: a surgical, pathological, ultrastructural, and electron probe x-ray microanalytic study |journal=Hum. Pathol. |volume=25 |issue=12 |pages=1283–9 |year=1994 |month=December |pmid=7528163 |doi= |url=}}</ref> - pale pink globs (that are paler than RBCs) - '''important feature'''.
*+/-Hemosiderin deposits.
*+/-Hemosiderin deposits.


DDx:
DDx:
*Angiosarcoma (have many mitoses).
*Angiosarcoma (have many mitoses).
Notes:
*Hyaline globules have a DDx (hepatocellular carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, chondrosarcomas + others).<ref name=pmid7528163/>


===IHC===
===IHC===
*CD31 +ve, CD34 +ve, HHV-8 +ve.
*CD31 +ve.
*CD34 +ve.
*HHV-8 +ve.


==Angiosarcoma==
==Angiosarcoma==
===General===
*Malignant tumour.
*Malignant tumour.


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==Hemangioendothelioma==
==Hemangioendothelioma==
===General===
*Usually benign.
*Usually benign.