title: Giant vascular leiomyoma in the hand.
abstract: Vascular leiomyoma or angioleiomyoma is a benign solitary tumour that arises from the mediae layer of the vein walls. It is usually located in the wall of the uterus. We describe a 73-year-old man who presented with a slowly growing mass in the thenar region of his right hand which, on histological examination, was shown to be a giant vascular leiomyoma. This is extremely rare and we could find only about 100 such cases reported in English.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Oita Medical University, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kataoka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Masumi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018229:Angiomyoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*