Short communication, Note

An Unusual Mole: An Adult Case of Dabska Tumour

Ana Bernić ; »Dr. Ivo Pedišić« General Hospital, Department of ENT Surgery, Sisak, Croatia
Irena Novosel ; »Dr. Ivo Pedišić« General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Sisak, Croatia
Šimun Križanac ; University of Zagreb, Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Pathology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In 1969 Dabska and her colleagues described for the first time this rare malignant tumour, also later known as a malignant endovascular papillary angioendothelioma of childhood. Overall, depending amongst other factors on its location, it is thought to have a generally favourable prognosis and a wide local excision seems to be the treatment of choice. We here present a very rare and unusual case of a 63 year old woman with a 20 year history of slow-growing right buccal dermatological lesion which resembled a common mole. The histopathological diagnosis of Dabska Tumour was made following the hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) biopsy. The analysis revealed multiple delicate interconnecting vascular channels with papillary plugs, some of which containing hyalinized core, projecting into the lumen lined by atypical plumped endothelial cells.

Keywords

Dabska Tumour; angiosarcoma; histopathology

Hrčak ID:

96497

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/96497

Publication date:

2.1.2013.

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