Characteristics of infantile hemangiomas as clues to pathogenesis: does hypoxia connect the dots?
BA Drolet, IJ Frieden - Archives of dermatology, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
INFANTILE HEMANGIOMAS (IHS) ARE THE MOST common tumor of infancy. Their unique
clini-cal characteristics, including emergence after birth as a rapidly growing plaque with a
bright red strawberry color or—if deeper—a softtissue mass with faint blue color, are
distinctive and widely recognized. However, certain less typical clinical variants have been
described, 1 and these descriptions have been augmented by an article in this issue of the
Archives by Maguiness et al2 as well as one in the September issue of the Archives by Suh …
clini-cal characteristics, including emergence after birth as a rapidly growing plaque with a
bright red strawberry color or—if deeper—a softtissue mass with faint blue color, are
distinctive and widely recognized. However, certain less typical clinical variants have been
described, 1 and these descriptions have been augmented by an article in this issue of the
Archives by Maguiness et al2 as well as one in the September issue of the Archives by Suh …
