Skin nonmelanocytic tumor
Vascular tumors
Hemangioma variants
Spindle cell hemangioma
Author: Christopher S. Hale, M.D.
Last author update: 1 July 2012
Last staff update: 9 November 2020
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Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Cytology imagesCite this page: Hale CS. Spindle cell hemangioma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/skintumornonmelanocytichemangiomaspindle.html. Accessed March 21st, 2023.
Definition / general
- Formerly called spindle cell hemangioendothelioma
- Associated with Mafucci syndrome
Case reports
- 43 year old Japanese man with Maffucci syndrome (J Med Case Reports 2011;5:224)
Clinical images
Contributed by Mark R. Wick, M.D.
In Maffucci syndrome
Microscopic (histologic) description
- Bland spindle cell proliferations between vascular lumina with extravasated erythrocytes (similar to Kaposi's sarcoma), but also with vacuolated cells and epithelioid endothelial cells (unlike Kaposi's sarcoma)
Microscopic (histologic) images
Contributed by Mark R. Wick, M.D.
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Cytology images
Contributed by Mark R. Wick, M.D.
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