Volume 19, Number 1, March 2007
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Hidetaka Kato,1 Ryota Yoshimoto,1 Nobuyuki Tanaka,2 Tatsuru Ikeda3
1Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shizuoka Tokusyukai Hospital, Shizuoka, and 3Department of Clinical Pathology, Sapporo Medical University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
Abstract
Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma is a vascular neoplasm of borderline or intermediate malignant potential. The tumour occurs predominantly in the extremities and is rarely found in the oral cavity. A 22-year-old female with an epithelioid haemangioendothelioma in the palate is reported.
Key words: Haemangioendothelioma, Palatal neoplasms, Vascular neoplasms
Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2007;19:66-68.
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