title: Intracranial epithelioid hemangioendothelioma: case report.
abstract: We report the case of a 27-year-old man who underwent surgical excision of an intracranial extra-axial right temporal lesion. A preoperative embolization with the use of a mixture of N-butyl-cyanoacrylate, ultrafluid-lipiodol, and micronized tungsten was necessary to devascularize the tumor. The histological diagnosis was epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. The patient was neurologically intact and tumor-free 18 months after surgery. To our knowledge, this is the fifth patient reported with intracranial epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and the first adult patient for whom complete data are available.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neurosurgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puca
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meglio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rollo
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Zannoni
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006390:Hemangioendothelioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013702:Temporal Lobe; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed