Korean J Dermatol.
2003 Oct;41(10):1390-1393.
A Case of Adult Onset Verrucous Hemangioma
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju, Korea. deroh@nongae.gsnu.ac.kr
- 2Gyeongsang Institute of Health Science, Gyeongsang National University, Chinju, Korea.
Abstract
- Verrucous hemangiomas are usually congenital lesions which typically present as warty, bluish, vascular papules, plaques, or nodules mainly on the lower limbs of children. It is a structural variant of capillary or cavernous hemangioma, in which reactive epidermal changes develop secondarily. They show no tendency to spontaneous resolution, and tend to spread and recur after inadequate treatments. It is important, from a prognostic and therapeutic point of view, to make a correct diagnosis between verrucous hemangioma and angiokeratoma circumscriptum, because the former needs a large and deep excision and the latter responds to the common means of physical therapy. We report a case of 37-year-old man with verrucous hemangioma which was developed at his third decade.
