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A rare case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma simultaneously involving the lung, pleura, and liver was diagnosed in a 26-year-old woman using open lung biopsy and CD34+ immunohistochemical staining.
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This case report highlights a rare presentation of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma simultaneously involving the lung, pleura, and liver in a young woman, which carried a poor prognosis.
Alerts clinicians to rare multiorgan EHE in young patients with lung-pleura-liver lesions; extends limited case literature on diagnosis and prognosis.
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EH) is a rare borderline malignant tumor which originating from vascular endothelial cells and occurs in many organs such as soft tissues, lung, liver and bone. But, pulmonary EH which simultaneously involves pleura and liver is very rare. In the present report, we describe an uncommon case of EH involving the lung, pleura and liver in a 26-year-old woman. Chest CT showed single nodule in right upper lobe with large amount of pleural effusion at ipsilateral side and abdominal CT multiple round low densities in liver. The EH was confirmed by microscopic analysis and immunohistochemical staining of CD34+ from open lung biopsy specimen.
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Na et al. (2005) conducted a case report in Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (n=1). A rare case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma simultaneously involving the lung, pleura, and liver was diagnosed in a 26-year-old woman using open lung biopsy and CD34+ immunohistochemical staining.
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