Adult Laryngeal Ossified Hemangioma: Difficulties in Differential Diagnosis. Issue 8 (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aluffi Valletti, Paolo; Toso, Andrea; Gorris, Christel; Dell'Era, Valeria; Golinelli, Gloria; Pia, Francesco
• Is Part Of: Journal of craniofacial surgery. Volume 29:Issue 8(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: Differential diagnosis -- hemangioma -- larynx; Facial bones -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Skull -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Face -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Surgery, Plastic -- Periodicals; 617.52
• DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000004626
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1049-2275

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Adult laryngeal hemangiomas are uncommon and often poorly symptomatic. The authors describe a laryngeal hemangioma with acute airway obstruction and radiologic findings suggesting a chondrosarcoma-like neoplasm, while pathologic features were consistent with an ossified hemangioma. The presence of fields of bone metaplasia into a classical cavernous hemangioma is an unusual phenomenon which, to our knowledge, was never previously described in the larynx. Difficulties concerning the differential diagnosis and modality of treatment are also discussed.