Abstract
Pseudomyogenic haemangioendothelioma (PMH) is a rare recently described vascular tumour typically presenting with soft tissue disease in distal extremities of young adults. Multi-focal and multi-layered involvement is commonly recognised. The majority of cases described so far have shown an indolent clinical course and distant metastatic spread is rare. We report a case of PMH in an 82-year-old male diagnosed following a pathological fracture of the distal tibia. Further bone lesions were identified in the fibula, patella and distal femur. The patient was found to have multiple nodules suspicious for pulmonary metastases on a CT scan at the time of diagnosis that showed significant progression at a follow-up scan 4 weeks later. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of PMH presenting with a pathological fracture. The rapid progression of bone and distant metastatic disease in this case is highly unusual given the typically indolent clinical course reported in the literature to date.
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Shah, A.R., Fernando, M., Musson, R. et al. An aggressive case of pseudomyogenic haemangioendothelioma of bone with pathological fracture and rapidly progressive pulmonary metastatic disease: case report and review of the literature. Skeletal Radiol 44, 1381–1386 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-015-2168-7
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