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A Benign Lesion Mimicking Angiosarcoma

Ronald J. Barr, MD; James H. Graham, MD; Lawrence A. Sherwin, MD

Arch Dermatol. 1978;114(5):723-726.

Abstract
• Observations were made of three cases of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (IPEH). Lesions of IPEH usually occur on the head and neck area as a subcutaneous red or blue nodule. This papillary proliferation of endothelial and stromal tissue occurs de novo in organizing venous thrombi or in preexisting hemangiomas or phlebectasias. An adequate understanding of this benign vascular disorder is important, since the lesion may be clinically and histologically mistaken for low grade angiosarcoma.

(Arch Dermatol 114:723-726, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of Dermatology, Section of Dermal Pathology and Histochemistry, California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, and the Dermatology Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, Calif.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 6, 1977.

Reprint requests to Section of Dermal Pathology and Histochemistry, University of California Irvine Medical Center, 101 City Dr S, Orange, CA 92668 (Dr Barr).

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