Neonatal fulminant type 2 infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma involving skin, viscera and soft tissue.
We present the fulminant case of a neonate whose symptoms, lesions, imaging, and laboratory tests perfectly simulated a neonatal neuroblastoma and the definitive diagnosis was finally given by necropsy as follows: Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma type 2 with extrahepatic extension affecting skin, lung, intestine, suprarenal, and soft tissue.
García-Rodríguez
Esther
E
Department of Neonatología, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain.
Calderón-López
Gemma
G
Salinas-Martín
Vicente
V
Ferrari-Cortés
Araceli
A
Pavón-Delgado
Antonio
A
Losada-Martínez
Antonio
A
D001344:Autopsy; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006390:Hemangioendothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D014781:Viscera / Q000473:pathology*