Diffuse pulmonary angiomatosis.

MR in diffuse angiomatosis.

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Diffuse dermal angiomatosis of the breast.

BACKGROUND Diffuse dermal angiomatosis is rare and usually considered a variant of reactive angioendotheliomatosis. It generally involves the extremities of patients with severe vascular disease and other comorbidities. Two patients with breast involvement have been described; however, neither had a relevant medical history or a vaso-occlusive disorder, but both had large pendulous breasts, and...

Diffuse Angiomatosis of the Small Intestine Causing Melaena

Diffuse dermal angiomatosis due to an iatrogenic arteriovenous fistula.

Sir, Reactive angio-endotheliomatosis (RAE) is a rare skin condition characterized by a diffuse proliferation of endothelial cells within the vascular lumina with secondary intravascular thrombi, resulting in obliteration of involved blood vessels. Clinical features are variable with both generalized and localized forms recognized (1, 2). We describe here a patient with Wegener’s granulomatosis...

Bacillary angiomatosis

DR J. SHAUN MURPHY: A 30-year-old woman was found to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at age 22 (1989). She also had a history of moderate asthma. She had been in her usual health until 2 months before hospitalization when nonbloody diarrhea appeared. A month later, she noted a small, yellow mass arising from her umbilicus (Figure 1). Seven days before the patient's admission to the hosp...