VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS

Venous malformations of the head and neck arise from deficits in the development of venous system. They are highly variable, from small and asymptomatic varicosities to massive face and neck lesions.

Vascular anomalies lead to local complications that includes bleeding, infection, pain, thrombosis, ulceration, and collapsed anatomic structures. They also cause general complications such as congestive heart failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, pulmonary embolism, thrombocytopenia, and sepsis

Vascular tumors of childhood are usually benign. The common types are infantile hemangioma, congenital hemangioma, kaposiform hemangioendothelioma, pyogenic granuloma, and others

Clinical diagnosis of these malformations generally done by making a thorough physical examination which considers the shape, consistency and character delineation and possible invasive lesion, with subsequent deterioration of vital functions. In most cases no further investigation is needed, but achieving the differential diagnosis of hemangiomas is imperative to rule out other diseases, which are potentially more serious.

Venous malformations occurring in superficial areas are usually easy to diagnose by clinical examination. However,  lesions that are deep in the face and neck, it is sometimes difficult to make a correct diagnosis through clinical examination alone. Imaging studies using ultrasound, CT, MRI (MR hemography) are the best diagnostic scans

Clinical pictures of vascular malformations of face and neck :

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