Bone Abstracts

Introduction: Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEE) is a tumor of vascular origin, infrequent in the pediatric age and even more infrequent at intestinal level. To our knowledge, there are no previous reports of pediatric patients with malignant humoral hypercalcemia associated with this tumor. Humoral mechanism is seen more often in lung, uterine cérvix, skin and esophagus tumors. The presence of hypercalcemia appears to be an ominous prognostic sign.<p class="abste...