Key result
Right-sided chest pain reveals primary pleural hemangioendothelioma in a 40-year-old man.
Why the study?
Pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an infrequent vascular endothelial cell tumor that is rarely reported in the literature.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report and literature review highlights the rare presentation and diagnostic findings of pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
Alerts clinicians to rare pleural tumors in atypical chest pain; extends case literature but leaves management and prognosis undefined.
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare tumor of the vascular endothelial cells. It can originate from any tissue; however, it occurs most frequently in the liver and lung. Pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH), EHE developing from pleura, is even more infrequent and less reported in the literature. In the following report, we discuss a 40-year-old man who initially presented with right-sided chest pain. Computed tomography revealed pleural thickening and effusion in his right thoracic cavity. PEH diagnosis was confirmed with immunohistochemistry. In order to provide the readers with an inclusive understanding of the disease, we collected the PEH cases reported in the literature. Despite the scarcity of the reported PEH cases (to our best knowledge), the compiled literature review of the disease enables the readers to grasp a better comprehension of the disease.
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Askari et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Primary Pleural Hemangioendothelioma (n=1). A 40-year-old man presenting with right-sided chest pain was diagnosed with primary pleural hemangioendothelioma, confirmed by immunohistochemistry.
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