Hemangioma

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Hemangioma is a very common benign vascular tumour.

Hemangioma
Diagnosis in short

Capillary hemangioma. H&E stain.

LM channels lined by benign endothelium containing RBCs
Subtypes soft tissue (capillary, cavernous, arteriovenous, venous, intramuscular, synovial), childhood (tufted, microvenular hemangioma, glomeruloid hemangioma, epithelioid hemangioma (see angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia‎), targetoid hemosideric hemangioma, infantile hemangioma)
LM DDx lymphangioma, angiokeratoma, lobular capillary hemangioma (pyogenic granuloma).
IHC CD31 +ve, D2-40 -ve, GLUT-1 +ve -- juvenile hemangioma
Site soft tissue, skin, liver, others

Associated Dx Castleman disease - for glomeruloid hemangioma
Syndromes POEMS syndrome - for glomeruloid hemangioma

Prevalence common vascular lesion
Prognosis benign
Hemangioma
External resources
EHVSC 10172

General

  • May be found in the liver.
    • Classically subcapsular.
      • May rupture and be life-threatening.[1]

Hemangiomas to remember - if you're only going remember a few:

  • Glomeruloid, infantile, caverous, capillary, arteriovenous, venous and intramuscular.

Childhood

Common childhood hemangiomas:[2]

Soft tissue

Several types are seen in soft tissue:[7]

  • Capillary.
  • Cavernous.
  • Arteriovenous.
  • Venous.
  • Intramuscular.
  • Synovial.

Microscopic

Features:

  • Channels lined by benign endothelium containing RBCs.

DDx:

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IHC

  • CD31 +ve.
  • D2-40 -ve.[8]

Juvenile hemangioma:[5]

  • GLUT-1 +ve.

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Liver Lesion, Core Biopsy:
- Cavernous hemangioma.
- NEGATIVE for malignancy.

Block letters

SUBCUTANEOUS NECK LESION, LEFT, EXCISION:
- CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA.
- NEGATIVE FOR MALIGNANCY.
LESION, LEFT SIDE OF FACE, EXCISION:
- CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA.
- NEGATIVE FOR MALIGNANCY.

Micro - skin

The sections show hair-bearing skin with abundant small superficial vascular channels containing red blood cells. The endothelial cells of the vascular channels do not have atypia. No mitotic activity is appreciated. The overlying epidermis is unremarkable. Extensive solar elastosis is present. No nevus is identified.

See also

References

  1. Vokaer, B.; Kothonidis, K.; Delatte, P.; De Cooman, S.; Pector, JC.; Liberale, G.. "Should ruptured liver haemangioma be treated by surgery or by conservative means? A case report.". Acta Chir Belg 108 (6): 761-4. PMID 19241936.
  2. Prieto VG, Shea CR (July 1999). "Selected cutaneous vascular neoplasms. A review". Dermatol Clin 17 (3): 507–20, viii. PMID 10410855.
  3. Uthup S, Balachandran K, Ammal VA, et al. (August 2006). "Renal involvement in multicentric Castleman disease with glomeruloid hemangioma of skin and plasmacytoma". Am. J. Kidney Dis. 48 (2): e17–24. doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2006.04.089. PMID 16860182.
  4. Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 618. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  5. 5.0 5.1 North, PE.; Waner, M.; Mizeracki, A.; Mihm, MC. (Jan 2000). "GLUT1: a newly discovered immunohistochemical marker for juvenile hemangiomas.". Hum Pathol 31 (1): 11-22. PMID 10665907.
  6. Dadras, SS.; North, PE.; Bertoncini, J.; Mihm, MC.; Detmar, M. (Sep 2004). "Infantile hemangiomas are arrested in an early developmental vascular differentiation state.". Mod Pathol 17 (9): 1068-79. doi:10.1038/modpathol.3800153. PMID 15143338.
  7. Humphrey, Peter A; Dehner, Louis P; Pfeifer, John D (2008). The Washington Manual of Surgical Pathology (1st ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 602. ISBN 978-0781765275.
  8. Kahn, HJ.; Bailey, D.; Marks, A. (Apr 2002). "Monoclonal antibody D2-40, a new marker of lymphatic endothelium, reacts with Kaposi's sarcoma and a subset of angiosarcomas.". Mod Pathol 15 (4): 434-40. doi:10.1038/modpathol.3880543. PMID 11950918.