title: Epithelioid hemangiomas arising in the coronary artery and right ventricle: A case report.
abstract: Epithelioid hemangioma (EH) is a benign vascular lesion. It is generally found in the dermis, subcutis, and rarely in visceral organs. We identified incidental EHs of the right coronary artery and right ventricle during an autopsy of Japanese female whose cause of death was liver cirrhosis. The tumor of the coronary artery originated from the tunica media of the artery and proliferated into the intima and out of the vascular wall. It resulted in marked luminal narrowing of approximately 50%-75% stenosis. However, no evidence of myocardial ischemia was found. Cardiac EH is rare and this is the first report of EH arising in the coronary artery, to our knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 4-21-18 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan. Electronic address: Kumiko_Asakura@member.metro.tokyo.jp.
authors.forename: Kumiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asakura
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 4-21-18 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Kino
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 4-21-18 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan; Department of Forensic Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan; Department of Forensic Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Hyogo Cancer Center, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: Takanori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirose
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 4-21-18 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurosu
authors.affiliation: Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 4-21-18 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan.
authors.forename: Tatsushige
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukunaga
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D002423:Cause of Death; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Coronary artery; Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma; Epithelioid hemangioma; Heart tumor