Infantile hemangioendothelioma of the liver associated with anomalous dilated and tortuous vessels on the placental surface.
An unusual vascular anomaly of the placenta and infantile hemangioendothelioma (IH) of the liver is described. The patient was an infant with a low birth weight for dates whose placenta showed markedly dilated and tortuous vessels, mainly venous but some arterial, on the fetal surface. Only one case of such a placental-vessel anomaly and no similar case associated with IH of liver has been described previously, although cutaneous hemangiomas have occasionally been reported to occur with IH.
Kanai
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Department of Pathology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
Saito
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K
Homma
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Y
Makino
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S
D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006390:Hemangioendothelioma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D010920:Placenta / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000098:blood supply*