Perilesional targetoid hemorrhage in superficial lymphangioma.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26326/2281-9649.29.3.2017

How to Cite

Bonifazi E. 2019. Perilesional targetoid hemorrhage in superficial lymphangioma. Eur. J. Pediat. Dermatol. 29 (3):181. 10.26326/2281-9649.29.3.2017.

Authors

Bonifazi E.
pp. 181

Abstract

Targetoid haemosiderotic hemangioma is a lymphatic malformation characterized by swollen endothelial cells jutting into the lumen and by extravasated red blood cells (1).

When bleeding occurs within the malformation this swells and acquires a brownish color; if the extravasated blood overflows from the neoformation, a hemorrhagic ring is formed in the surrounding skin that extends centrifugally and resolves starting from the center, so that at a certain point you can see a central neoformation, a ring of normal skin and more peripherally a hemorrhagic halo.

However, as well as in a superficial lymphangioma, as the present case shows, this phenomenon can occur in an angioma, a melanocytic nevus or another neoformation (2). For a right diagnosis of the initial lesion it is necessary to observe what remains when the phenomenon regresses.

Keywords

Targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma, Lymphangioma