Lymphangio-endothelioma of the anterior abdominal wall. Report of a case

✍ Scribed by James Calnan; R. H. Cowdell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 658 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004619815

✦ Synopsis

To report a single case in the literature is rarely justifiable unless it is rare or shows some unusual features. T h e case of a patient seen by us with angioendothelioma of the abdominal wall appears to meet both of these qualifications and so is recorded here.

CASE REPORT

Mr. G. K., a retired book-packer, aged 66 years, was first seen by one of us in December, 1949, when he presented with a large fungating ulcer of the lower abdominal wall. The diagnosis of angio-endothelioma was not suspected at that time, but the history was interesting and unusual.

In April, 1942, at the age of 59 years, this patient had noticed a lump, the size of a pea, beneath his prepuce; he could feel it but was unable to see it owing to the tightness of his prepuce. Three months later he sought advice from the late Mr. Hugh Whitelocke, who diagnosed a carcinoma of the penis with bilateral involvement of the inguinal nodes. Total amputation of the penis and bilateral orchidectomy was carried out. Healing was uneventful and histologically the specimen showed a squamous carcinoma of the inner aspect of the prepuce, Broder's Grade 11.