Vascular tumor

Vascular tumor

Vascular tumor may mean:

:* tumor of vascular origin, a growth () formed from blood vessels; for example, hemangioma, hemangioendothelioma, Kaposi sarcoma, angiosarcoma, etc.:* a highly vascularized tumor or poorly vascularized tumor, referring to the degree of adequate or inadequate (ischemic) blood supply to a tumor formed from any biological tissue


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