QUESTION I see many children with infantile hemangiomas and have read about new therapeutic options such as propranolol. Is this medication effective and safe for treating hemangiomas in children? ANSWER Most infantile hemangiomas resolve spontaneously without any need for therapy. In many case series, propranolol has been shown to be effective and safe in treating hemangiomas that cause comp...

Periocular tumors are common in infancy. The most common periocular tumors are capillary hemangiomas, which are present in 1-2% of newborns and develop in 10%-12% of children by the age of 1 year old. Deep capillary hemangiomas may be more challenging to diagnose than superficial capillary hemangiomas and can be confused with other orbital lesions. Deep orbital hemangiomas can mimic teratoma, l...

Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) imaging of hepatic hemangiomas (10 patients, 16 lesions) and hepatic cysts (8 patients, 10 lesions) was performed. All hemangiomas were hypointense on T1-weighted images and hyperintense on T2-weighted images. With Gd-DTPA (0.1 mmol/kg), all hemangiomas were enhanced but not all cysts. It was necessary to perform contrast enhanced imaging to different...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of infantile hemangiomas is not yet understood. Growth factors and hormonal and mechanical influences have been thought to affect the focal abnormal growth of endothelial cells in these lesions. However, these influences may represent secondary responses to an underlying primary molecular event leading to the development of hemangiomas. OBSERVATIONS We report the r...

Capillary hemangioma (capillary lobular hemangioma) and cavernous hemangioma (venous malformation) are relatively common oral tumors/malformations and are characterized by increased numbers of normal and abnormal blood vessels. However, the causes of these lesions are not well understood. CD105 (endoglin) is predominantly expressed in proliferating blood endothelial cells (ECs). We analyzed exp...

PURPOSE To correlate the MRI features of sclerosed hemangiomas with histologic appearance. MATERIALS AND METHODS A medical record search identified patients with sclerosed hemangioma who underwent MRI and biopsy/resection from January 2000 to March 2012 for this retrospective institutional review board approved study. Two radiologists independently performed image analysis. A pathologist eval...

SUMMARY Vertebral hemangiomas are very common abnormalities involving human spinal column. Two different kinds of these lesions, symptomatic and asymptomatic hemangiomas are noted in the spine. The asymptomatic ones are found incidentally in spinal imaging investigations and don not need any theraputic action. The symptomatic hemangiomas, which are not as usual as former one but, causes signif...

<p>Hemangiomas of the airway are benign vascular lesions that can involve any site from nares to tracheobronchial tree. It is most common head and neck tumors in infants. Most these seen subglottic area The presence supraglottic hemangioma rarely described. This may be due less likely chance symptoms tendency infantile hemangiomas involute without therapy over time. Also, occurrence as a ...

BACKGROUND Multiple hemangiomas of the skin have traditionally been recognized as a clue to potential visceral hemangiomas. Recently, hemangiomas have been recognized to have subcategories, localized and segmental, which correlate with risk of complications. While less common, segmental hemangiomas of the skin have a higher risk of being life- or function-threatening and/or having associated st...