Infantile haemangiomas (IH) are the most common benign tumours of infancy. Although most IH are innocuous and 85-90% regress spontaneously, some may become life- or function-threatening and require immediate treatment. Previous standard therapeutic options include physical measures (laser surgery, cryosurgery) and systemic corticosteroids, in severe cases also vincristine, alpha-interferon or c...

Haemangiomas are benign tumours of the vascular endothelium (4–6). Most haemangiomas are well circumscribed and are com posed of variably sized vascular spaces. These spaces are filled with erythrocytes and are lined by a single layer of uniform endothelial cells. These tumours have been called cavernous or capillary tumours (5). Haemangiomas are common in older dogs but infrequently occur in o...

Cardiac haemangiomas are rare forms of cardiac tumours which can present at any age and in any cardiac location. The clinical presentations of patients vary and preoperative diagnosis of cardiac haemangiomas is usually made using echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical resection is the treatment of choice and follow-up is recommended to avoid any recurrence. We report a ...

Intramuscular haemangiomas (IMHs) are rare benign vascular neoplasms that account for approximately 0.8% of all haemangiomas. The histology of IMHs can reveal cavernous dilated spaces. We report an interesting case of haemangioma in the deep skeletal muscle of the right labial mucosa in a young man involving the orbicularis oris muscle which showed additional features of sinusoidal arrangement ...

Capillary haemangiomas are benign lesions that may occur anywhere on the skin, may grow rapidly in the first two years of life and may impair vital organs. Propranolol has been recently discovered to shrink these lesions effectively. We report the first such patient treated in Malta with this drug.

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to evaluate the value of diffusion-weighted imaging in the differential diagnosis of haemangiomas from metastases of the liver. PATIENTS AND METHODS.: We analyzed 69 lesions in 38 patients (33 haemangiomas; 36 metastases) in the retrospective study. Diffusion-weighted imaging was performed using a breath-hold single-shot echo-planar spin echo sequence wi...

PURPOSE The aim of the study is to improve operative speed and precision of haemangiomas excision. METHODS CASE-REPORT haemangioma is a common affection of the 8% of the population during the neonatal period. In complicated cases and involution sequelae surgical treatment is the first choice. The Authors propose a surgical refinement to prevent intraoperative bleeding. METHODS several su...

DEAR EDITOR, Infantile haemangioma (IH) is a very common benign vascular tumour with a reported incidence of 4–10% in infants, and no clear genetic basis described as yet. Congenital melanocytic naevi (CMN) are benign melanocytic tumours present in 1% of newborns, which when multiple are caused by post-zygotic mutations in the gene NRAS in the majority of cases, and when single, carry various s...