Hemangioma, Rapidly Involuting Congenital, Hemangioma - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

hemangioma, rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma

Body Site

leg

Age

13 months

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

blue purple

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

asymmetric solitary

Comments

This healthy 13-month-old boy had a firm bluish-purple plaque on his left leg at birth. The lesion flattened and lightened in color within 6 months and continued to regress without therapy.

Description

pale slightly atrophic 5 cm pale purple plaque with overlying telangiectasias

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6/20/2009 23:23:07

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