Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma: The First Reported Case in a Nonhuman Animal Species

Editor:

I would like to make a comment regarding the manuscript titled “Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma: the first reported case in a nonhuman animal species” published in the November 2004 volume of Veterinary Pathology. A very similar tumor, called Kaposi-like vascular tumor, has previously been described in both the latest World Health Organization fascicle on the Histological Classification of Mesenchymal Tumors of Skin and Soft Tissues of Domestic Animals, vol. 2, published in 1998 and in Tumors in Domestic Animals, ed. Meuten DJ, 4th ed., published in 2002. Although I chose to call the lesion “Kaposi-like vascular tumor,” in the subsequent description, I stated that the tumor has “features of Kaposi's sarcoma and kaposiform hemangioendothelioma of humans.” ¹ Even if the authors do not think their tumor fits the description of Kaposi-like vascular tumor exactly, a reference to and discussion of the latter tumor was warranted.