Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Genetics of neurocutaneous disorders
- 3 Clinical recognition
- 4 Neurofibromatosis type 1
- 5 Neurofibromatosis type 2
- 6 Tuberous sclerosis complex
- 7 von Hippel–Lindau disease
- 8 Neurocutaneous melanosis
- 9 Nevoid basal cell carcinoma (Gorlin) syndrome
- 10 Epidermal nevus syndromes
- 11 Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
- 12 Ataxia–telangiectasia
- 13 Incontinentia pigmenti
- 14 Hypomelanosis of Ito
- 15 Cowden disease
- 16 Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- 17 Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- 18 Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome
- 19 Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
- 20 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler–Weber–Rendu)
- 21 Hereditary neurocutaneous angiomatosis
- 22 Cutaneous hemangiomas: vascular anomaly complex
- 23 Sturge–Weber syndrome
- 24 Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
- 25 Multiple carboxylase deficiency
- 26 Homocystinuria due to cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) deficiency
- 27 Fucosidosis
- 28 Menkes disease
- 29 Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy
- 30 Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
- 31 Adrenoleukodystrophy
- 32 Peroxisomal disorders
- 33 Familial dysautonomia
- 34 Fabry disease
- 35 Giant axonal neuropathy
- 36 Chediak–Higashi syndrome
- 37 Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis
- 38 Cerebello-trigemino-dermal dysplasia
- 39 Coffin–Siris syndrome: clinical delineation; differential diagnosis and long-term evolution
- 40 Lipoid proteinosis
- 41 Macrodactyly–nerve fibrolipoma
- Index
- References
22 - Cutaneous hemangiomas: vascular anomaly complex
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Genetics of neurocutaneous disorders
- 3 Clinical recognition
- 4 Neurofibromatosis type 1
- 5 Neurofibromatosis type 2
- 6 Tuberous sclerosis complex
- 7 von Hippel–Lindau disease
- 8 Neurocutaneous melanosis
- 9 Nevoid basal cell carcinoma (Gorlin) syndrome
- 10 Epidermal nevus syndromes
- 11 Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
- 12 Ataxia–telangiectasia
- 13 Incontinentia pigmenti
- 14 Hypomelanosis of Ito
- 15 Cowden disease
- 16 Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- 17 Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- 18 Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome
- 19 Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
- 20 Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler–Weber–Rendu)
- 21 Hereditary neurocutaneous angiomatosis
- 22 Cutaneous hemangiomas: vascular anomaly complex
- 23 Sturge–Weber syndrome
- 24 Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
- 25 Multiple carboxylase deficiency
- 26 Homocystinuria due to cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) deficiency
- 27 Fucosidosis
- 28 Menkes disease
- 29 Xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy
- 30 Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
- 31 Adrenoleukodystrophy
- 32 Peroxisomal disorders
- 33 Familial dysautonomia
- 34 Fabry disease
- 35 Giant axonal neuropathy
- 36 Chediak–Higashi syndrome
- 37 Encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis
- 38 Cerebello-trigemino-dermal dysplasia
- 39 Coffin–Siris syndrome: clinical delineation; differential diagnosis and long-term evolution
- 40 Lipoid proteinosis
- 41 Macrodactyly–nerve fibrolipoma
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors in infancy, occurring in up to 10% of children less than 1 year of age (Frieden et al., 1996). These lesions are two to three times more common in girls than boys (Gorlin et al., 1994; Pascual-Castroviejo et al, 1996). Sixty percent involve the head and neck (Esterly, 1995). Hemangiomas develop during the first few weeks of life but are not usually present at birth. They typically grow for months or rarely years because of rapid endothelial cell proliferation, then spontaneously involute (Mulliken & Glowacki, 1982). Some patients also develop cutaneous vascular malformations with a distribution similar to the hemangiomas. These lesions are composed of dysplastic vessels without cellular proliferation and never regress. They are subcategorized by their flow rate (high- or slow-flow malformations) and by their predominant anomalous channels (arteriovenous or lymphatic malformations).
Aside from the obvious cutaneous hemangiomas, anomalies often occur in the central nervous system, extracranial and intracranial arteries, heart, and aortic arch. Less frequently, hemangiomas occur in conjunction with skeletal changes, sternal malformations (Hersh et al., 1985), constitutional deformities (Burns et al., 1991), coarctation of the aorta (Pascual-Castroviejo et al., 1996), midabdominal raphé (Igarashi et al., 1985) or sacral and genitourinary defects. Hemangiomas involve not only the face, but also the pharynx, larynx, arms, shoulders, chest, back, mediastinum, limbs, trunk, genitalia, liver, gastrointestinal tract and other zones (Pascual-Castroviejo, 1985; Enjolras et al., 1990; Pascual-Castroviejo et al., 1996).
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- Neurocutaneous Disorders , pp. 172 - 178Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004
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