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CASE REPORT
Acquired progressive lymphangioma of the nipple
  1. Eyas Alkhalili1,
  2. Houriya Ayoubieh2,
  3. William O'Brien3,
  4. Steven D Billings4
  1. 1Department of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  3. 3Department of Surgery, Cleveland clinic, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA
  4. 4Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Eyas Alkhalili; eyaszk{at}yahoo.com, alkhale{at}ccf.org

Summary

A 47-year-old woman presented with left nipple itch and discomfort. On physical examination she was found to have a 7 mm lesion. She underwent bilateral mammography and bilateral breast ultrasound which were normal. A punch biopsy of the lesion was performed in the office and the specimen submitted to pathology. Histopathological examination showed ectatic vascular spaces lined by flattened, cytologically bland endothelial cells dissecting the dermal collagen. Evident lymphatic valves were present within the vascular spaces confirming that the vessels were lymphatic in nature. The diagnosis of acquired progressive lymphangioma (benign lymphangioendothelioma) was rendered.

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