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[Recurring bone epithelioid hemangioma]
Marie-Laure Ranty1, Chantal Michot, Florence Le Pessot
1Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU Charles Nicolle, Rouen, France. rantyml@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Bone vascular tumors are very rare. Epithelioid types are described according to their architecture, their degree of vascular differentiation, and their cytonuclear atypia. The include epithelioid hemangioma, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, and angiosarcoma. We report a case of L4 corpus vertebral bone epithelioid hemangioma. The patient was a 25-year-old man with a tumor that recurred twice. The lesion was characterized by a vascular lumen lined by cells with regular nuclei and inflammatory infiltrates. Capillaries were lined by prominent epithelioid endothelial cells, associated with CD31+ and cytokeratin-.