Sclerosing Hemangioma



Sclerosing Hemangioma


Alvaro C. Laga

Timothy C. Allen

Mary L. Ostrowski

Philip T. Cagle



Sclerosing hemangiomas are lung tumors originally considered to be of endothelial origin due to their vascular-like features. It is now believed that these tumors are benign neoplasms or very-low-grade malignant neoplasms arising from primitive respiratory epithelium, and more recently they have been designated pneumocytomas by some authors. Sclerosing hemangiomas are generally found in middle-aged women as coin lesions on chest x-ray examination. Grossly, sclerosing hemangiomas are circumscribed round to oval masses with a red-gray cut surface found within the lung parenchyma.


Cytologic Features



  • Loosely cohesive cell fragments intersected by thick sclerotic stromal cores on fine-needle aspiration.


  • Cells are small to intermediate and have uniform, often eccentric, round to oval nuclei with fine, evenly distributed chromatin.


  • Nucleoli are not prominent.


  • Occasional large intranuclear cytoplasmic inclusions.


Histologic Features

Jul 14, 2016 | Posted by in PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE | Comments Off on Sclerosing Hemangioma

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