Karyotypic changes detected by comparative genomic hybridization in a stillborn infant with chorioangioma and liver hemangioma.
BACKGROUND
Placental hemangioma (chorioangioma) and congenital hemangioma are relatively common tumors, which on rare occasions may occur together. Very little is known about the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying these lesions.


METHODS
Herein we describe a rare case of a stillborn infant with chorioangioma, placental mesenchymal dysplasia, and liver cavernous hemangioma. In addition, we present the findings of the karyotype analysis of these lesions, which was done with the bacterial artificial chromosome arrays using the comparative genomic hybridization method. The chromosomal abnormalities that we found were deletions at 2q13 and 7p21.1 and were common to both placental and liver lesions.


CONCLUSIONS
None of the identified chromosomal aberrations have been previously associated with chorioangiomas or hemangiomas. Important genes that lie in these DNA regions may be implicated in the pathogenesis of congenital hemangiomas and mesenchymal dysplasia.
Miliaras
Dimosthenis
D
Laboratory of Histology, Embryology & Anthropology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. dmiliara@med.auth.gr
Conroy
Jeffrey
J
Pervana
Stavroula
S
Meditskou
Soultana
S
McQuaid
Devin
D
Nowak
Norma
N
D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; D002889:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2; D002897:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007621:Karyotyping; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010922:Placenta Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D011247:Pregnancy; D050497:Stillbirth / Q000235:genetics*