title: [Intramural hemangioma of the portal vein].
abstract: Capillary hemangiomas occur rather ubiquitously, but extremely rare within the wall of blood vessels. For this reason the authors report on a small capillary hemangioma of sinusoidal type. It has been observed fortuitously within the wall of the portal vein at autopsy of a 79-year-old woman. Based on site and structural characteristics the benign neoplasia is supposed to have developed from a local malformation, probably an abortive liver anlage.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Anatomie I, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Danz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mentzel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D018324:Hemangioma, Capillary / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000473:pathology*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*