title: Low-Grade Uterine Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Presented as a Submucosal Leiomyoma during Labor.
abstract: With the exception of leiomyomas, soft tissue tumors of the uterine corpus are not common. This is particularly true for vascular neoplasms, with the epithelioid hemangioendothelioma being a curiosity; not more than twenty-two cases of malignant hemangioendotheliomas have been reported in the literature so far, all of which were high-grade hemangioendotheliomas (hemangiosarcomas). We present herewith a unique case of low-grade epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the uterus in a pregnant woman aged 29 years. The clinical, histological, and immunohistochemical characteristics of this entity, together with its differential diagnosis, are discussed.
authors: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace and University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece.
authors: Anastasios V
authors: AV
authors: Koutsopoulos
authors: Efthimios
authors: E
authors: Sivridis
authors: Panagiotis
authors: P
authors: Tsikouras
authors: Vasileios
authors: V
authors: Liberis
authors: Georgia
authors: G
authors: Karpathiou
authors: Alexandra
authors: A
authors: Giatromanolaki
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