This issue of Current Problems in Surgery is devoted to the topic of" Vascular Anomalies," a
clinical malady that is seen by almost all surgical specialists, but particularly by those who …

The vast majority of vascular anomalies of infancy and childhood can be biologically classified
as hemangioma or vascular malformation. Hemangiomas are benign neoplasms that …

Mulliken and Glowacki, in 1982 created a classification system of vascular anomalies which
divided vascular anomalies into tumors and malformations which provided the framework for …

Hemangiomas are the most common tumors of infancy, with a prevalence of 5 to 10 percent
among one-year-olds. They are characterized by rapid growth in the first year of life, …

Congenital lipomatous overgrowth with vascular, epidermal, and skeletal anomalies (CLOVES)
is a sporadically occurring, nonhereditary disorder characterized by asymmetric somatic …

Objectives To test the hypothesis that somatic phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphospate 3-kinase,
catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA) mutations would be found in patients with more common …

PURPOSE: Hepatic hemangiomas, though histologically benign, may be associated with
significant morbidity and mortality in afflicted infants. The literature presents much confusion …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the presentation characteristics of patients with Kaposiform
hemangioendothelioma (KHE) to describe the spectrum of disease and risk factors for Kasabach-…

Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are the most common tumors of childhood. Unlike other tumors,
they have the unique ability to involute after proliferation, often leading primary care …

Background: Arteriovenous malformation is a dynamic vascular anomaly; it expands with
age and after treatment. This study analyzed the pattern of arteriovenous malformation …