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Asunis E, Cini C, De Robertis M, Griffoni C, Bandiera S, Righi A, Ghermandi R, Pipola V, Girolami M, Tedesco G, Gambarotti M, Gasbarrini A. Epithelioid Hemangioma of the Spine: A Case Series and Treatment Flow Chart-Experience from a Single Centre. Cancers (Basel) 2024; 16:2557. [PMID: 39061195 PMCID: PMC11274583 DOI: 10.3390/cancers16142557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Epithelioid hemangioma is recognized by the World Health Organization as a distinct benign neoplasm; however, it is characterized by locally aggressive and rarely metastasizing behavior. Epithelioid vascular tumors are rare bony vascular lesions with varying degrees of malignant potential that remain controversial because of their rarity, unusual morphological features, and unpredictable biological behavior. The application of new molecular tools, such as massive parallel sequencing technologies, have provided new diagnostic markers and an opportunity to further refine the classification of bone vascular neoplasms. Very few cases of EH of the spine have been reported in the literature; therefore, it is difficult to make evidence-based therapeutic decisions for these patients. We report herein our experience with eleven patients suffering from EH of the spine. The study population included three males and eight females treated in our center from 2016 to the present; the average age was 44.8 years (range 14-75 years). The surgical, clinical, and radiographic data were retrospectively analyzed. The mean follow-up was 34.8 months. All patients presented lytic vertebral body lesions, six of them with pathological fracture. The majority of patients (80%) presented myelo-radicular compression. All patients were surgically treated, and preoperative embolization was performed in all cases. In light of the literature review and the clinical experience of our center, we can consider EH a locally aggressive tumor that requires surgical treatment in case of symptoms. Here, we propose a treatment algorithm that could be useful in the management of patients with this rare disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Emanuela Asunis
- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy;
- Department of Neurosurgery, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (A.R.); (M.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (A.R.); (M.G.)
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- Department of Spine Surgery, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, 40136 Bologna, Italy; (E.A.); (C.C.); (S.B.); (R.G.); (V.P.); (M.G.); (G.T.); (A.G.)
- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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Errani C, De Benedictis I, Righi A, Valenti B, Del Savio E, Baldazzi D, Benini S, Sbaraglia M, Vega Jimenez B, Vanel D, Donati DM, Dei Tos AP, Maestro R. Fusion transcriptome profiling defines the monoclonal origin of multifocal epithelioid haemangioma of bone. Histopathology 2023; 83:743-755. [PMID: 37519041 DOI: 10.1111/his.15016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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AIMS Epithelioid haemangioma (EH) of bone remains a highly controversial entity. Indeed, the WHO classifies EHs of soft tissues as benign tumours, whereas bone EHs are considered intermediate-locally aggressive tumours due to common multifocal presentation and local destructive growth. To gain insights into the clinical behaviour and biology of EH of bone we retrospectively analysed 42 patients treated in a single institution from 1978 to 2021. METHODS AND RESULTS Multifocal presentation was detected in 17 of 42 patients (40%) primarily as synchronous lesions. Patients were treated with curettage (57%), resection (29%) or biopsy, followed by radiotherapy or embolisation (14%). Follow-up (minimum 24 months) was available for 38 patients, with only five local recurrences (13%) and no death of disease. To clarify whether the synchronous bone lesions in multifocal EH represent multicentric disease or clonal dissemination, four cases were profiled by RNA-sequencing. Separate lesions from the same patient, which showed a similar transcriptional profile, expressed the same fusion transcript (involving FOS or FOSB) with identical gene breakpoints. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate that, in EH of bone, multifocal lesions are clonally related and therefore represent the spread of a same neoplastic clone rather than simultaneous independent tumours. This finding is in apparent contradiction with the benign clinical course of the disease, and suggests that tumour dissemination in bone EH probably reflects a phenomenon of passive spreading, with tumour cells colonising distal sites while maintaining their benign biological nature.
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- Costantino Errani
- Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica III a Prevalente Indirizzo Oncologico, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Unit of Oncogenetics and Functional Oncogenomics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO Aviano) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Unit of Oncogenetics and Functional Oncogenomics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO Aviano) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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- Unit of Oncogenetics and Functional Oncogenomics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO Aviano) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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- Unit of Oncogenetics and Functional Oncogenomics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO Aviano) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Padova, Padua, Italy
- Department of Medicine, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica III a Prevalente Indirizzo Oncologico, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria di Padova, Padua, Italy
- Department of Medicine, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
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- Unit of Oncogenetics and Functional Oncogenomics, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO Aviano) IRCCS, Aviano, Italy
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Savvidou O, Korkolopoulou P, Lakiotaki E, Sioutis S, Vottis C, Gavriil P, Melissaridou D, Papagelopoulos P. Multifocal Epithelioid Hemangioma of bone: a rare vascular neoplasm. Clinicopathological diagnosis and treatment. A case report and literature review. J Long Term Eff Med Implants 2022; 32:47-55. [DOI: 10.1615/jlongtermeffmedimplants.2022041868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Marton N, Ramos-Oliver I, Cajal AG, de Albert M, Dominguez Oronoz R. Transarticular epithelioid hemangioma of the ankle-a case of a rare vascular neoplasm. Skeletal Radiol 2021; 50:1263-1270. [PMID: 33420574 DOI: 10.1007/s00256-020-03687-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/29/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Epithelioid hemangioma of the bone is a rare kind of vascular neoplasm posing a diagnostic challenge because of its ability to mimic malignant tumors. We report a case of a fast-growing, talofibular joint-involving epithelioid hemangioma, which was suspectedly initiated by vascular damage due to trauma and arthroscopy. The ankle mass appeared as a lytic lesion on the CT images and as a T1 hypo-, T2 mildly hyperintense, lobulated structure on the MRI scans. The contrast enhancement pattern was typical to vascular neoplasms. Histologically the lesion consisted of well-formed vessels lined with epithelioid cells with a slightly atypical nuclear morphology, inflammation with a significant number of eosinophils, and low mitotic rate. Immunohistochemistry analysis showed the presence of vascular markers but no rearrangements characteristic of soft tissue sarcomas were registered by the next-generation sequencing. The surgical treatment was curative. The report presents current imaging methods and summarizes the imaging findings of transarticular spreading tumors. The paper also highlights that for the differential diagnosis of vascular tumors showing signs of aggressivity, the pathological analysis is inevitable. Correct diagnosis of the epithelioid hemangioma is essential, as the treatment of more malignant entities is substantially different. An added value of the report is that to the best of our knowledge, a transarticular spreading epithelioid hemangioma of the ankle has never been described before.
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- Nikolett Marton
- Department of Radiology, Jahn Ferenc Hospital, 1 Koves ut, Budapest, H-1204, Hungary. .,Experimental Rheumatology Research Group, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
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- Department of Radiology, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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