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Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 28;10(4):633.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare10040633.

Epithelioid Hemangioma of the Nose: A Challenging Diagnosis

Fabrizio Schonauer  1 , Annachiara Cavaliere  1 , Giuseppe Pezone  1 , Armando Calogero  2 , Caterina Sagnelli  3 , Antonello Sica  4 , Luca D'Andrea  5 , Antonello Baldo  6
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Epithelioid Hemangioma of the Nose: A Challenging Diagnosis

Fabrizio Schonauer et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

Epithelioid hemangioma is a rare reactive vasoproliferative disease presenting with painless vascular nodules in the dermal and subcutaneous tissues of the head and neck. Clinical diagnosis can be difficult as, in most cases, the only symptom is a progressively tender swelling next to a vessel course. Thus far, few cases of epithelioid hemangioma localized to the nose have been described in the literature. Herein, we present a case of a 47-year-old woman with just such a lesion of the nose, focusing on its diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords: epithelioid hemangioma; lesions of the nose; vasoproliferative disease.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Preoperative appearance of the lesion.
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Doppler ultrasonography of the lesion.
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Preoperative planning of wide excision of the lesion (left); 10-day postoperative result (right).
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Histopathologic study: pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia with rich lymphocytic infiltration with predominant eosinophilic quote in fibrous stroma (left), vascular proliferation with multilobular architecture with prominent endothelial cells (right); hematoxylin and eosin.
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Figure 5
One-year follow-up, no sign of recurrence.
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