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A Mediastinal Mass in End-Stage Liver Disease

A Mediastinal Mass in End-Stage Liver Disease JOURNAL OF THE R OYAL SOCIETY O F M EDICINE V o lu me 98 Febru a ry 2005 Local medical treatments have been used in ALHE but most patients have the lesion excised surgically. Recurrence is unusual. For surgeons who believe they are operating on a simple sebaceous cyst a hazard, as illustrated here, is that they will find themselves suddenly having to deal with a very bloody operating field. REFERENCES 1 Enzinger FM, Weiss SW. Soft Tissue Tumors, 3rd edn. St Louis: CV Mosby-Year Book 1995 2 Olsen TG, Helwig EB. Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. J Am Acad Dermatol 1985;12:781–96 3 Urabe A, Tsuneyoshi M, Enojoji M. Epithelioid haemangioma versus Kimura’s disease. Am J Surg Pathol 1987;11:758–66 4 Motoi M, Wahid S, Horie Y, Akagi T. Kimura’s disease: clinical histologic and immunohistochemical studies. Acta Med Okayama Figure 1 High-power view showing a proliferation of small 1992;46:449–55 vascular spaces lined by plump epithelioid endothelial cells spherical (2 cm in diameter), soft and smooth; it was attached to the skin, which was hair-bearing; there was no A mediastinal mass regional lymphadenopathy. The preoperative clinical in end-stage liver disease diagnosis was a sebaceous cyst. The lump was excised with an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine SAGE

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© 2005 The Royal Society of Medicine
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0141-0768
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1758-1095
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10.1177/014107680509800210
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JOURNAL OF THE R OYAL SOCIETY O F M EDICINE V o lu me 98 Febru a ry 2005 Local medical treatments have been used in ALHE but most patients have the lesion excised surgically. Recurrence is unusual. For surgeons who believe they are operating on a simple sebaceous cyst a hazard, as illustrated here, is that they will find themselves suddenly having to deal with a very bloody operating field. REFERENCES 1 Enzinger FM, Weiss SW. Soft Tissue Tumors, 3rd edn. St Louis: CV Mosby-Year Book 1995 2 Olsen TG, Helwig EB. Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. J Am Acad Dermatol 1985;12:781–96 3 Urabe A, Tsuneyoshi M, Enojoji M. Epithelioid haemangioma versus Kimura’s disease. Am J Surg Pathol 1987;11:758–66 4 Motoi M, Wahid S, Horie Y, Akagi T. Kimura’s disease: clinical histologic and immunohistochemical studies. Acta Med Okayama Figure 1 High-power view showing a proliferation of small 1992;46:449–55 vascular spaces lined by plump epithelioid endothelial cells spherical (2 cm in diameter), soft and smooth; it was attached to the skin, which was hair-bearing; there was no A mediastinal mass regional lymphadenopathy. The preoperative clinical in end-stage liver disease diagnosis was a sebaceous cyst. The lump was excised with an

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Published: Feb 1, 2005

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