An interesting case of angiogenesis in cavernous hemangioma

Indian J Ophthalmol. 2016 Oct;64(10):783-785. doi: 10.4103/0301-4738.195005.

Abstract

Cavernous hemangioma is the most common orbital tumor in adult. There is lot of literatures for clinicopathological features of this tumor. These tumors had been studied for the model of angiogenesis in many of the experimental setups. We present a case of 34-year-old male with this tumor in the left eye with computerized tomography evidence. Postsurgical laboratory findings gave interesting evidence of tumor angiogenesis with tumor endothelial cells and sprouting of the small vessels endothelial cells. Podosome rosette could be conceptualized from the characteristic patterns seen in the tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / diagnosis
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / etiology*
  • Ophthalmic Artery / diagnostic imaging*
  • Orbit / diagnostic imaging*
  • Orbital Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed