HEMANGIOMAS OF THE KNEE JOINT

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Abstract
The occurrence of hemangiomas is rare, judging from the scarcity of references in the current literature and textbooks. Recent clinical experience with this condition occurring in the knee joint, and the fact that it heretofore has not been mentioned in reference to other "internal derangements" of the knee joint, prompt me to call attention to it. It is important as a distinct entity of marked seriousness and also from the standpoint of differential diagnosis. A recent complete and painstaking review of the literature of hemangiomas occurring in all parts of the body with particular reference to those developing in the nervous system, by Stewart and Bettin,1will be referred to frequently, and the value of its conclusions acknowledged. Hemangiomas are in no way similar to varicose vessels or aneurysms, but are a neoplastic overgrowth of blood vascular tissue. They are composed of irregular spaces lined with epithelium, but the

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