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Cutaneous epithelioid angiomatous nodule in a patient with a history of multiple pyogenic granulomas Volume 25, issue 3, May-June 2015

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Authors
1 Department of Innovative Applied Oncology,
2 Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Kyushu University Hospital,
3 Department of Dermatology,
4 Division of Dermatology,
Haradoi Hospital,
Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
5 Department of Pathophysiological and Experimental Pathology,
6 Department of Surgery and Science,
7 Department of Anatomic Pathology,
Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1,
Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
a These authors contributed equally to this work.

Cutaneous epithelioid angiomatous nodules (CEANs) are rare, benign cutaneous vascular lesions first described in 2004 [1-4]. Despite CEAN being regarded as a well-defined entity, its differential diagnosis spectrum is wide and includes epithelioid hemangioma (EH) or angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, epithelioid angiosarcoma, bacillary angiomatosis (BA), Kaposi's sarcoma, and pyogenic granuloma (PyG) [1, 2, 4].An 81-year-old Japanese man presented with [...]