1. Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the mandibular gingiva: A rare case of metastasis 4 years after radical excision and literature review
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Pierantonio Bellini, Attilio Carlo Salgarelli, Livia Maccio, and Giacomo Setti
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Larynx ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Case Report ,mandibular gingiva ,Malignancy ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Metastasis ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rare case ,medicine ,030223 otorhinolaryngology ,General Dentistry ,Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma ,Malignant hemangioendothelioma ,vascular tumor ,Otorhinolaryngology2734 Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,2734 ,business.industry ,Thyroid ,030206 dentistry ,medicine.disease ,Mandibular gingiva ,stomatognathic diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Scalp ,business - Abstract
Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (MEH), or high-risk epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, is a low- to intermediate-grade vascular malignancy. A few cases of MEH have been documented in the head and neck region, including the neck, thyroid gland, larynx and scalp. MEHs are extremely rare in the oral cavity. Only 31 cases of MEH in the oral cavity were described in English literature between 1975 and 2014. Further, only eleven cases were referred to MEH of the maxillary or mandibular gingiva. No gingival MEH metastases have been described in literature. We report a literature review and a case of MEH with a metastatic occurrence 4 years after surgical excision.
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- 2016