Talk:Hemangioma
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[edit] Diagnosis?
How are internal hemangiomas diagnosed? --Renice 23:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
-- I believe that internal hemangiomas can be located visually. They usually cause some deformity of the body. In other cases where the hemangioma is located near a specific organ, it can disrupt the normal function of the organ any dependent organs. In that case, a problem is not hard to recognize... it's just recognizing the problem. --MykeyJ 09:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
In fact internal hemangiomas are not located visually. If a baby has difficulty breathing in association with hemangioma on the face and neck involvement of the larynx must be suspected. If multiple hemangiomas are present on the body, ultrasound of the liver is usually carried out.
This article is wrong. I am 20 and still have the huge hemangioma that I was born with on my thigh.
You may have a vascular malformation and not a hemangioma of infancy which by definition get better. In general a vascular malformation will have been present as long as you can remember and and show growth in proportion to your body growth. Swelling and varicosity may occur slowly over life. Injury may initiate more rapid swelling Philbek (talk) 08:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
You can have a hemangioma as an adult they are just more common in children i have and i am an adult. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmfred (talk • contribs) 23:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "Rare" complications?
This article could use some more research, as a lot of hemangiomas are not benign and cause many complications. MykeyJ 09:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes there are some very severe complications like death i know all of these complications because i ave a hemangima and it alsoshould say that it is not always visible and that it can grow on the inside of the skin and is very serious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.97.140.122 (talk) 21:18, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Laser treatment?
I just talked to my daughter who told me her newborn son is scheduled to see a pediatric dermatologist regarding laser treatment for his hemangioma. She was told this is something they like to do before the baby is 4 months old as it can obviate the need for surgical removal later. I see there's no mention of this in this article. Gr8white 00:09, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Laser treatment is mentioned in the article. It only works sometimes and only if the the hemangioma is very flatPhilbek (talk) 08:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] hemangioma in the leg...
hemangioma if occurs somewhere deep in the leg, causes a lot of pain..the pain appears to be emanating from the deep inside of knee joint.. what should be done for it..the patient is 28 yrs old.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.90.85.235 (talk) 09:08, 22 April 2007 (UTC).
You are describing a venous malformation and not a hemangioma which will have resolved by age 10. Treatment of venous malformation is difficult and usually involves sclerosant injection or surgery. Superficial cosmetically disfiguring portions will sometimes respond to a specific type of laser Philbek (talk) 08:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Not necessarily they can still be around after the age of 10 i am 16 and see a doctor regularly for treatment and i have a HEMANGIOMA not a venous malformation they dont all go away by the age of 10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmfred (talk • contribs) 23:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] The Man with No Face
Somebody should really include some information about "The Man With No Face" the person featured in a Discovery and TLC documentary. He has a 12 pound Hemangioma that has taken over his entire face. See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/03/wface103.xml —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.230.102.213 (talk) 02:14, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
This man does not have a hemangioma of infancy. He has a Port-wine stain (capillary vascular malformation) These lesion present at birth as a flat red mark. Very rarely in adulthood they can undergo dramatic thickening. This complication is rare and as yet poorly understood. Philbek (talk) 08:11, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Angioma Title discussion
Angioma is also a general term for all kinds of vascular anomalies both congental and acquired. It would make this page even more confusing.
"Vascular Anomalies" is the best encompassing heading. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Philbek (talk • contribs) 08:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
