Title
Vascular nevus. A study of its frequency, types and course
Other title
[Nevus vasculares. Estudio de su frecuencia, tipos y evolución.]
Date Issued
01 January 1990
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Meléndez Guevara G.
Peláez Gutiérrez R.
Sánchez Aznaran N.
Paolo Razuri C.
Abstract
It is presented a prospective study of vascular nevus during a year, with the finality to know its frequency, types and evolution. In twelve months of study, we founded in 1,485 borns that 14.14% presented those lesiones salmon stain 86%, oport wine 1.35%, capilar hemangioma or in strawberry the 10.81%, cavernous hemangioma the 0.45% and mixed hemangioma the 1.35%. Where more frequent in females that in males as well as from the urban zone in almost more than the half of the cases. Dimensions were between 0 to 5 cm. range, 98% in salmon stain, 95% in strawberry hemangioma, 66.3% mixed hemangioma, 66.6% in oport wine stain distributed in the head in more proportion. There was salmon stain in the nape in 61.7%, 15% in the forehead and in the superior eyelids 14.3%. The familiar antecedents of vascular nevus in brothers was of 4.76%, 5.71% in uncle, 2.98% in parents and 1.43% in grandparents. The evolution was not concluded because of desertion in almost the totality of patients, finalizing with only the 6.66%. Our findings are different from those published in the literature. The total frequency is more in our experience in salmon, oport wine stains and hemangiomas.
Start page
112
End page
118
Volume
18
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-17344384119
PubMed ID
Source
Medicina cutanea ibero-latino-americana
ISSN of the container
02105187
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