Angioma en Penacho

Tufted Angioma of the Face Angioma en penacho de la región facial

We present the case of a 9-year-old female patient that was sent to our service because of a purplish lesion on the bridge of the nose. This lesion was seen at the age of 7 as a small, asymptomatic red wine macula, which grew progressively. At present it is slightly painful and presents papular areas. Physical examination revealed that there was a 2 cm×1 cm purplish oval plaque, indurated and s...

Venous Angioma, Cavernous Angioma, and Hemorrhage

In this issue of AJNR, Wilms et al ( 1) add to the ongoing debate whether the venous angioma, more recently called developmental venous anomaly (2), can be symptomatic, whether it alone can bleed, or whether such hemorrhage occurs because of the concomitant occurrence of a cavernous angioma . This debate is not just semantic. It is essential to pathophysiologic understanding of a given lesion s...

Cavernous angioma associated with venous angioma--two case reports.

A 17-year-old male and a 28-year-old female presented with cavernous angioma and venous angioma colocated in the same region, and manifesting as convulsions. The cavernous angiomas were extirpated without damage to the venous angioma. No postoperative neurological deficits were observed. The patients have been free of convulsions without anticonvulsant medication for 2 years. Early extirpation ...

Tufted angioma*

©2017 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia Dear Editor, Tufted angioma is a rare vascular tumor, with slow angiomatous proliferation, usually located in the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Its clinical presentation is of a solitary angiomatous tumor, usually located on the neck, upper trunk and extremities. It is more frequent in children, with no sex or racial predilection. The term tufted angio...

Angioma of the Retina.