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Lymphatic Tumors

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Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors

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At the Workshop on Vascular Anomalies in Rome in June 1996, the Mulliken and Glowacki classification was accepted for various cutaneous vascular lesions. This classification is based upon clinical, histological and cytological features [9, 10, 28]. According to Enzinger, lymphatic tumors can be classified into benign and malignant lesions [14]. As compared with tumors arising from blood vessels, soft tissue tumors of lymphatic origin are rare; benign lesions include the solitary lymphangioma, lymphangiomatosis, lymphangiomyoma and lymphangiomyomatosis. There is growing evidence to suggest that the majority of these lesions represent hamartomas or developmental lymphangiectasias rather than true neoplasms [11, 36].

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium

    Arthur M. De Schepper MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman), Paul M. Parizel MD, PhD (Staff Radiologist), Luc De Beuckeleer MD (Radiologist) & Filip Vanhoenacker MD (Staff Radiologist) (Professor and Chairman),  (Staff Radiologist),  (Radiologist) &  (Staff Radiologist)

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van den Hauwe, L., Ramon, F. (2001). Lymphatic Tumors. In: De Schepper, A.M., Parizel, P.M., De Beuckeleer, L., Vanhoenacker, F. (eds) Imaging of Soft Tissue Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07856-3_14

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