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T Miyamoto1, M Mihara, E Mishima
1Division of Dermatology, Tsuyama Central Hospital, Japan.
The British Journal of Dermatology
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report a 62-year-old woman with acquired tufted angioma. Several scattered reddish nodules were present on the neck and upper chest. During a follow-up period of 6 months, some of the lesions showed transient spontaneous regression and one disappeared completely. Electron microscopy revealed that a few tumour cells contained Weibel-Palade bodies in their cytoplasm.
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