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Abstract

#Angioleiomyoma (ALM) is a rare benign, vascular smooth muscle tumor originating from the tunica media of the vessel wall. It typically arises in the cutaneous, subcutaneous tissue of the lower extremities in middle-aged women and is less than 2 cm in diameter. We report an ALM of the thigh in a 69-year-old woman with intermittent pain. US was performed with a high-resolution, broad-band (5 MHz-18 MHz) linear transducer for the superficial nodule. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no report of high-resolution ultrasound image features, including #grayscale US, color Doppler US and Real-Time Tissue #Elastography (RTE) for an ALM. ALM should be considered as one of the painful and #vascularized subcutaneous mass, a superficial location that can be seen on high-resolution US. The feature of adjacent blood flow signal on color Doppler US could be strongly suggested to be ALM.ALM is a rare tumor that arises from the #tunica media of small arteries and veins [1]. The tumors are usually small, solitary, round, painful, firm, skin-colored, and well-encapsulated [2]. #Dermatologic ultrasound imaging has been rapidly growing in recent years because of the development of high-resolution multifrequency transducers and multichannel color Doppler machines [3].

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High - Resolution Ultrasound Imaging for Angioleiomyoma: A Painful and Vascularized Superficial Tumor by Kazumi Fujioka in BJSTR 

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