Open surgical treatment for rare epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the common femoral vein

Xiangjiang Guo; Shuo Fei Yang; Guan Hua Xue; Jia Quan Chen; Hao Zhang; Lan Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jimed.2019.10.010

Open surgical treatment for rare epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the common femoral vein

J Interv Med. 2019 Oct 23;2(4):178-180. doi: 10.1016/j.jimed.2019.10.010. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

Xiangjiang Guo¹, Shuo Fei Yang¹, Guan Hua Xue¹, Jia Quan Chen¹, Hao Zhang¹, Lan Zhang¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200127, China.

Abstract

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a very rare disease affecting big blood vessels, especially veins. There have been very few articles describing the disease. We hereby present the case of a 56-year-old woman presenting with lower limb edema, who was initially being treated for residual thrombus in the common femoral vein but was eventually diagnosed with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE). The common femoral vein was resected and reconstructed using the external jugular vein. No additional therapy was administered. In this article, previous literature about EHE has been reviewed and oncologic principles have been discussed.

Keywords: EHE, Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma.