The current approach to the diagnosis of vascular anomalies of the head and neck: A pictorial essay.
10.5624/isd.2015.45.2.123
- Author:
Sinny GOEL
1
;
Swati GUPTA
;
Aarti SINGH
;
Anjali PRAKASH
;
Sujoy GHOSH
;
Poonam NARANG
;
Sunita GUPTA
Author Information
1. Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, India. sgoeldoc@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Hemangioma;
Vascular Malformation;
Classification;
Neck
- MeSH:
Classification;
Diagnosis*;
Head*;
Hemangioma;
Neck*;
Vascular Malformations
- From:Imaging Science in Dentistry
2015;45(2):123-131
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Throughout the years, various classifications have evolved for the diagnosis of vascular anomalies. However, it remains difficult to classify a number of such lesions. Because all hemangiomas were previously considered to involute, if a lesion with imaging and clinical characteristics of hemangioma does not involute, then there is no subclass in which to classify such a lesion, as reported in one of our cases. The recent classification proposed by the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA, 2014) has solved this problem by including non-involuting and partially involuting hemangioma in the classification. We present here five cases of vascular anomalies and discuss their diagnosis in accordance with the ISSVA (2014) classification. A non-involuting lesion should not always be diagnosed as a vascular malformation. A non-involuting lesion can be either a hemangioma or a vascular malformation depending upon its clinicopathologic and imaging characteristics.
