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Intramuscular cavernous haemangioma of the triceps


Nabil Dammak
Hassen Cheikh Rouhou
Issam Khalifa
Ines Haddad
Yadh Zitoun
Faouzi Abid

Abstract

A 16-year-old teenager presented himself with a swollen left elbow, with no associated vascular-nerve complications. The standard radiography was without abnormalities. The echography showed the presence of an oblong vascularized formation occupying the posterior part of the elbow. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a hyper vascularized lesion developing at the expense of the brachial triceps muscle with an intermediate signal intensity on the sequences weighted in T1 and a hyper signal in T2. The anatomopathological study of the initial biopsy and of the tumor part concluded with a cavernous hemangioma. Although their origin is vascular, hemangiomas never metastasize and do not undergo malignant transformation. The treatment of symptomatic hemangioma consists of surgical excision.


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