Skin nonmelanocytic tumor
Vascular tumors
Hemangioma variants
Infantile hemangioma
Author: Christopher S. Hale, M.D.
Last author update: 1 July 2012
Last staff update: 15 July 2021
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Definition / general | Case reports | Clinical images | Microscopic (histologic) images | Positive stains | Differential diagnosisCite this page: Hale CS. Infantile hemangioma. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/skintumornonmelanocytichemangiomajuvenile.html. Accessed October 3rd, 2023.
Definition / general
- Usually congenital or perinatal and grow during the first few months of life
- Spontaneously involutes, not associated with Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon
Case reports
- 3 year old male child with painless, dome-shaped lesion of the upper lip (J Oral Maxillofac Pathol 2011;15:316)
Clinical images
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Dark brown papule
Surrounding ecchymotic macular rings
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Lobules below normal epithelium
Plump endothelial cells
Proliferation of endothelial cells
CD34
CD31
Positive stains
- GLUT1+
- LewisY+
Differential diagnosis
- Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma: doesn't involute, GLUT1–, LewisY–, often associated with Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon
