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Pediatr Dev Pathol ; 3(6): 556-60, 2000.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11000333

ABSTRACT

We reviewed the histopathology of 13 cases of Kasabach-Merrit Syndrome (KMS). In 4 (31%) cases the predominant morphology was that of a tufted angioma (TA). Six (46%) cases were Kaposiform hemangioendotheliomas (KHE), and 3 (23%) cases showed an infantile (juvenile) hemangioma only. Immunostaining for CD34 and actin (HHF-35) was helpful in defining these types of hemangiomas. The TA was characterized by a proliferation of endothelial cells positive for CD34 with a minimal component of actin-positive cells. KHE showed a paucity of immunoreactive cells; only the luminal endothelial cells were positive for CD34. In three cases with the morphology of infantile hemangiomas, actin-positive cells outnumbered the CD34-positive cells. Our findings confirm the observation that the underlying vascular lesion in KMS is usually not an infantile hemangioma as was originally thought, but variants of hemangiomas such as TA and KHE (77% of 13 KMS cases). Infantile hemangioma was the phenotypic substrate of KMS in only 3 of 13 cases.


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Hemangioma, Capillary/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Thrombocytopenia/pathology , Actins/analysis , Antigens, CD34/analysis , Cell Division , Endothelium, Vascular/chemistry , Endothelium, Vascular/pathology , Female , Hemangioma, Capillary/chemistry , Hemangioma, Capillary/congenital , Humans , Immunohistochemistry , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Pericytes/metabolism , Pericytes/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/chemistry , Skin Neoplasms/congenital , Syndrome , Thrombocytopenia/congenital
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