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Transplantation
September 2005
Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a very rare tumor of vascular origin. It can develop in different tissues such as soft tissue, lung, or liver. Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEH) mostly affects females.
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December 1996
Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Bern Inselspital, Switzerland.
Background: Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EH) is a rare neoplasm of vascular origin that may develop at different sites, such as in soft tissue, the lungs, or the liver. It usually affects adult females, and its unpredictable malignant potential has a range between benign hemangioma and clearly malignant hemangioendotheliosarcoma.
Methods: In the current study, the authors describe 2 patients with primary EH of the liver and review 127 previously published cases found in the literature.
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