Skin nonmelanocytic tumor
Vascular tumors
Hemangioma variants
Capillary hemangioma
Author: Christopher S. Hale, M.D.
Last author update: 1 July 2012
Last staff update: 30 December 2021
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PubMed search: capillary [title] hemangioma skin
Cite this page: Hale CS. Capillary hemangioma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/skintumornonmelanocytichemangiomacapillary.html. Accessed June 1st, 2023.
Definition / general
- Small (usually 1 - 3 mm) benign vascular lesions
- Also called strawberry hemangioma
- Children: usually regress by fibrosis
- Adults: may slowly enlarge or thrombose
Microscopic (histologic) images
Contributed by Mark R. Wick, M.D.
Lobular capillary hemangioma
Lobular capillary hemangioma - irritated
Differential diagnosis
- Angiosarcoma
- Dermal vascular hyperplasia (with venous stasis)
- Hemangioendothelioma
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Pyogenic granuloma
