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Hemangioma is a benign proliferation of endothelial cells that tends to vasoformation, a generic term for a variety of hamartomatous lesions comprising vascular tissue. Hemangiomas in the breast are a benign group of lesions with a broad morphologic spectrum (Table 1).
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Kovács, A., Krüger, U. (2018). Hemangioma of the Breast. In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4753-1
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