ANGIOENDOTHELIOMA OF THE NASOPHARYNX
- 1 December 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 32 (6) , 1076-1081
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1940.00660021084009
Abstract
An angioendothelioma is an angiomatous tumor composed of blood vessels in early stages of formation and possessing low grade malignancy.1Golgi is credited as being the first to use the term endothelioma, in 1869, and Maurer2in 1879 described 2 cases of slowly growing malignant tumors composed of ingrowth from endothelial lining of blood vessels, which he called angiosarcoma. Franke3a year later described a tumor of tissue and blood spaces lined with endothelial cells, which he preferred to call endothelioma rather than sarcoma. Borst4stated that angioendothelioma is clinically rather benign, although it does cause local destruction of tissue and recurs when removed. According to Geschickter and Keasbey,5when active proliferation occurs in capillary angiomas in which masses of endothelial cells are seen about the vascular channels, a subvariety of these tumors, angioblastic hemangioma, is created. They are sometimes called hemangioendothelioma and are difficult at times to distinguish microscopicallyKeywords
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