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Congenital cutaneous multifocal kaposiform hemangioendothelioma
R Gianotti1, C Gelmetti, E Alessi
1Istituto di Scienze Dermatologiche, IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
The American Journal of Dermatopathology
|December 23, 1999
Abstract:
Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma is a rare vascular neoplasm in children often associated with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome. The tumor usually presents in retroperitoneal location and is rarely present at birth. Cutaneous lesions manifest after birth and must be clinically differentiated from infantile hemangiomas and diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis. Histologically, it bears similarities with Kaposi sarcoma. We present a case of congenital cutaneous multifocal kaposiform hemangioendothelioma (KHE).