Spindle cell hemangioma is a benign vascular tumor presenting as multifocal red or bluish nodules on the distal limbs. We present a 57-year-old woman with five years history of multiple, soft, violaceous nodules on her hands. Pathologic study indicated spindle cell hemangioma.

patients of all ages and have a reported prevalence rate of 0.001-0.03% in autopsy series and a rate of 0.15% in echocardiac series (1). The majority of primary cardiac tumors are benign. The most common primary cardiac neoplasm is a myxoma, which accounts for approximately half of all cases. Other benign primary tumors include the papillary fibroelastoma, rhabdomyoma, fibroma, hemangioma, para...

The authors describe the case of a 48-year-old man found to have the first reported intramedullary spinal cord spindle cell hemangioma. Previous research indicates that spindle cell hemangiomas are rarely found in the spine. Only 3 previous cases exist, all in the intradural, extramedullary space. In the present case, gross-total resection of the tumor was possible with no loss of function from...

INTRODUCTION Maffucci syndrome is a rare clinical entity (approximately 200 cases have been reported in the medical literature) with a combined occurrence of multiple enchondromas and vascular tumors. CASE PRESENTATION The case of a 43-year-old Japanese man with multiple chondromas and hemangiomas (Maffucci syndrome) is reported. One of the hemangiomas was removed and examined pathologically....

Spindle cell hemangioma (SCH) is a rare benign vascular tumor and we report 2 cases of SCH who are 50-year-old man and 16-year-old girl. A growing amount of evidence indicates that multifunctional ECM molecule decorin regulate endothelial cell-matrix interactions during angiogenesis. Furthermore, a current publication shows that no detectable decorin expression was found in the stromas of tumor...

Most primary bladder tumors in children are predominantly malignant mesenchymal tumors, usually rhabdomyosarcoma. Several uncommon non-urothelial bladder tumors have been described and must be differentiated from sarcomatoid carcinoma. These include postoperative spindle cell nodule, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, leiomyoma, hemangioma and neurofibromas. IMT usually affects adolescents. Th...