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Histiocytoid hemangioma with prominent fingernail involvement
A Tosti1, A M Peluso, P A Fanti
1Department of Dermatology, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Only 2 cases of histiocytoid hemangioma localized in the nail apparatus have been reported in the literature. We describe here a patient affected by multiple histiocytoid hemangiomas involving the 3rd right digit and fingernail. The pathological features were typical for a diagnosis of histiocytoid hemangioma showing vascular proliferation characterized by enlarged endothelial cells associated with inflammatory cells. Phenotypic characterization of the proliferating cells confirmed their vascular origin.