Korean Journal of Dermatology  1999;37(12):1856-1858

Painful Tufted Angioma on the Thumb.

So Hyung KIM 1 ; Jee Ho CHOI ; Kyung Jeh SUNG ; Kee Chan MOON ; Jai Kyoung KOH

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Keywords

Painful tufted angioma; Thumb

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Tufted angioma is a rare slowly progressive vascular disorder found typically in children and young adults, usually involving the trunk and neck. We report a case of painful tufted angioma in a 58-year-old man, who had suffered from a painful reddish patch on the dorsum of the right thumb for 2 years. On histopathologic examination, the numerous round lobules of vascular proliferation showed the typical "cannonball" distribution in the dermis. The unusual location and spontaneous pain are rare manifestations of tufted angioma.