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Home » Topics A–Z » Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia pathology
Author: A/Prof Patrick Emanuel, Dermatopathologist, Auckland, New Zealand, 2013.
Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (or eosinophils) is also known as epithelioid or histiocytoid haemangioma (See also Epithelioid haemangioma pathology). It usually effects young adults and presents as clustered small, translucent nodules on the head and neck.
Sections show an inflamed dermis which shows increased vascularity (figure 1). Higher power examination reveals the endothelial cells lining the vessels are enlarged and epithelioid (figure 2, 3). The infiltrate is composed of lymphocytes which form follicles and numerous eosinophils (figures 2, 3).
Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophils pathology
None are generally needed.
Kimura disease – Can closely resemble angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia. Eosinophilic abscess, eosinophils infiltrating germinal centers and dermal sclerosis are more common in Kimura disease. The vessels of Kimura disease generally lack an epithelioid endothelial lining.
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