title: Infantile hemangioendothelioma of the liver associated with anomalous dilated and tortuous vessels on the placental surface.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Homma
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Makino
mesh_terms: 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*