Haemangiomas are benign tumours of blood vessel origin and are classified as capillary, cavernous or central. They appear as flat or raised reddish-blue lesions and are generally solitary, affecting women in younger age groups. The tumour may be slowly progressive, involving extensive portions of the superficial and deep blood vessels, and affect function, depending on location. They are common...

Herein, we report the histopathology of angiokeratoma characterised by non-invasive, proliferative, ectatic vascular malformations accompanying lysosomal dilation in the canine skin. Two cutaneous angiokeratomas were diagnosed in a six-year-old spayed female Pekinese dog. Physical examination of the skin revealed two small erythematous papules on the axillary and abdominal regions. The masses w...

Cavernous haemangioma (cavernoma) is a benign vascular lesion, exceptionally located in cauda equina. We report a case, diagnosed and operated in the Department of Neurosurgery from Pitesti County Emergency Hospital, of a 60-year-old woman with history of lumbar region distress, who presented with low back pain, paravertebral muscle contracture, and bilateral lumbar radiculopathy, with sudden o...

Lichtenstein in 1942 and consists essentially of fibrous tissue honeycombed by vascular spaces. The lesion has been observed in many parts of the skeleton but it occurs especially in the shafts of long bones and in the vertebral column. It causes localised distension and destruction of the affected bone, limited peripherally by a thin bony shell (Fig. 1). In the past the lesion has usually been...