Précis: We report the unusual etiology of a sellar aggressive mass, an epithelioid angiosarcoma, the diagnosis of which was made from positive epithelial and vascular markers.

Address for correspondence: Mariusz Łochowski MD, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Memorial Copernicus Hospital, 62 Pabianicka St, 93-513 Lodz, Poland, phone: +48 602 776 887, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 24.11.2016, accepted: 30.12.2017. A 62-year-old man, a smoker, was admitted to our department with a history of cough, weight loss (5 kg per 3 months) and fever. T...

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular tumor of lowto intermediate-grade malignancy that occurs in the liver and other organs. Its etiology is unknown. We report a 57-year-old female with incidental finding of abnormal liver function by blood biochemistry studies. Multiphasic helical CT imaging revealed multifocal hypovascular nodules predominantly at the periphery of both he...

pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (ehe) is a rare malignancy of vascular-endothelial origin with non-specific symptoms and an unpredictable outcome. diagnosis of this condition by imaging modalities is challenging, and no standard therapeutic approaches have been established in this regard. in this paper, we described the case of a patient with a low-grade fever, coughing and chest pain ...

A 52-year-old woman was admitted with complaints of intermittent right abdominal quadrant discomfort and postprandial nausea and vomiting. Laboratory tests were all in the normal range except that she had anemia. On enhanced CT imaging, the classic hepatic cavernous hemangioma signs (white arrow) were observed, while the centre of the nodular lesion (yellow arrow) was not enhanced during all po...

Primary cerebral intra-axial epithelioid angiosarcoma is an extremely rare malignancy. To the best of our knowledge we describe the first case of epithelioid angiosarcoma arisen in the septum pellucidum of a 54-years-old man. Albeit extremely rare, this neoplasia is a potential source of misdiagnosis for other aggressive malignant tumors, and it should be taken into consideration.

Reported herein is a medical curiosities vascular tumor primary arising from the kidney and exhibiting unique histopathological features. A 32-year-old woman underwent a total nephrectomy of right kidney because of a mass localized in the inferior pole. Distinct from other vascular lesions, on histology the tumor had a peculiar composite pattern, consisting of benign and malignant vascular comp...