PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - DIMITRIS P. KORKOLIS AU - MARIA PAPAEVANGELOU AU - GEORGE KOULAXOUZIDIS AU - NIKOS ZIRGANOS AU - HELEN PSICHOGIOU AU - PERIKLES P. VASSILOPOULOS TI - Intravascular Papillary Endothelial Hyperplasia (Masson's Hemangioma) Presenting as a Soft-tissue Sarcoma DP - 2005 Mar 01 TA - Anticancer Research PG - 1409--1412 VI - 25 IP - 2B 4099 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/25/2B/1409.short 4100 - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/25/2B/1409.full SO - Anticancer Res2005 Mar 01; 25 AB - Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia (Masson's hemangioma) is an unusual, benign, non-neoplastic, vascular lesion characterized histologically by papillary fronds lined by proliferating endothelium. It may appear as a primary or pure form developing in a distended vessel, or it can be associated with hemangiomas, pyogenic granulomas, or lymphagiomas. Nearly all lesions are intimately associated with a thrombus in various stages of organization. The main significance of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia is its clinical and histological resemblance to soft-tissue sarcoma and possible misinterpretation as such. A case of intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia clinically diagnosed and treated as a low-grade angiosarcoma, in a 60-year-old man, presenting with a mass in the left thigh, is reported. Copyright© 2005 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. John G. Delinassios), All rights reserved