Multifocal congenital hemangioma: Expanding the pathogenesis of “neonatal hemangiomatosis”

• DOI: 10.1111/pde.13814
• Publication Date: 2019-06-24T00:04:32Z
• Authors: Shoshana Blumenthal; Nicole Stefanko; Maria‐Laura Cossio; Jerôme Coulombe; Catherine McCuaig; Josee Dubois; Paula North; Beth Drolet
• Keywords: Male; 03 medical and health sciences; Skin Neoplasms; 0302 clinical medicine; Infant, Newborn; Humans; Infant; Hemangioma; 3. Good health

AbstractCongenital hemangiomas are benign vascular tumors, categorized by their postnatal behavior as rapidly involuting, non‐involuting, or partially involuting. They are typically solitary, with a predilection for the head or limbs near a joint. We present two infants with small, multifocal congenital nonprogressive hemangiomas of the skin, one associated with hepatic and intracranial lesions, and another with an in utero intracranial hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. These cases further extend the differential diagnosis of congenital multifocal vascular lesions or “hemangiomatosis.”