title: An unusual mole: an adult case of Dabska tumour.
abstract: In 1969 Dabska and her colleagues described for the first time this rare malignant tumour, also later known as a malignant endovascular papillary angioendothelioma of childhood. Overall, depending amongst other factors on its location, it is thought to have a generally favourable prognosis and a wide local excision seems to be the treatment of choice. We here present a very rare and unusual case of a 63 year old woman with a 20 year history of slow-growing right buccal dermatological lesion which resembled a common mole. The histopathological diagnosis of Dabska Tumour was made following the hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) biopsy. The analysis revealed multiple delicate interconnecting vascular channels with papillary plugs, some of which containing hyalinized core, projecting into the lumen lined by atypical plumped endothelial cells.
authors: Dr. Ivo Pedisić, General Hospital, Department of ENT Surgery, Sisak, Croatia. abernic@gmail.com
authors: Ana
authors: A
authors: Bernić
authors: Irena
authors: I
authors: Novosel
authors: Simun
authors: S
authors: Krizanac
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery