TY - JOUR
T1 - Lymphangioma circumscriptum, angiokeratoma, or superficial vascular ectasia with epithelial hyperplasia?
AU - Katsoulas, Nikolaos
AU - Tosios, Konstantinos I.
AU - Argyris, Prokopios
AU - Koutlas, Ioannis G.
AU - Sklavounou, Alexandra
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - We report a case of lymphangioma circumscriptum (cavernous lymphangioma with epithelial hyperplasia) in a 12-year-old girl, presenting as a papillary tumor on the right dorsal side of her tongue. Microscopic examination found cavernous vascular channels lined by a single layer of CD31+, podoplanin-positive, CD34- endothelial cells that occupied the papillary lamina propria and were accompanied by epithelial hyperplasia. A review of the literature on oral vascular tumors with epithelial hyperplasia, namely, lymphangioma circumscriptum and angiokeratoma, provided information that draws into question the use of these terms.
AB - We report a case of lymphangioma circumscriptum (cavernous lymphangioma with epithelial hyperplasia) in a 12-year-old girl, presenting as a papillary tumor on the right dorsal side of her tongue. Microscopic examination found cavernous vascular channels lined by a single layer of CD31+, podoplanin-positive, CD34- endothelial cells that occupied the papillary lamina propria and were accompanied by epithelial hyperplasia. A review of the literature on oral vascular tumors with epithelial hyperplasia, namely, lymphangioma circumscriptum and angiokeratoma, provided information that draws into question the use of these terms.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.oooo.2013.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.oooo.2013.12.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 24491964
AN - SCOPUS:84904747752
SN - 2212-4403
VL - 118
SP - e53-e57
JO - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
JF - Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
IS - 2
ER -