Department of Pathology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA;, and Department of Dermatology, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract:
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare vascular tumor of endothelial cell origin. We describe an EHE arising on the plantar surface of the foot that was treated as verruca vulgaris for several years before a biopsy showed EHE. We discuss the clinical and histopathologic differential diagnoses for these tumors and review additional cases in which EHE has been mistaken for benign entities clinically.