Littoral cell angioma is:: (A) Tumor of spleen, (B) Angiomatous lesion of skin, (C) Angioblastic tumor of Cerebellum, (D) Congenital vascular anomaly at base of brain
Answer is A. Littoral cell angioma
• Is a benign, vascular tumor of spleen presenting as spleenomegaly
• It may be associated with other malignancies and has malignant potential itself
• The tumor arises from the littoral cells in the splenic red pulp sinuses. Littoral cell angioma affects both men and
Women equally with no specific age predilection
• It is usually asymptomatic and is discovered incidentally
• Some of the patients with this entity may present with symptoms of hypersplenism such as anemia,
thrombocytopenia, and splenomegaly, the latter seen in almost all patients with littoral cell angioma