Infantile hemangioma is a proliferation of LYVE-1-negative blood endothelial cells without lymphatic competence

Modern Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 291-298

  Nguyen, Van An ^a   Kutzner, Heinz ^b   Fürhapter, Christina ^a   Tzankov, Alexandar ^c   Sepp, Norbert ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Dermatopathologische Gemeinschaftspraxis   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infantile hemangioma; Involution; Lymphatic specific endothelial cell markers; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

BETA4 INTEGRIN; CELL MARKER; HLA DR ANTIGEN; PODOPLANIN; PROTEIN PROX 1; RECEPTOR LYVE 1; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANTILE HEMANGIOMA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; TUMOR GROWTH; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANTIGENS, CD31; ANTIGENS, CD34; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMANGIOMA; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 30944439294     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800537     Document Type: Article

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