Vascular Tumors

Question 1

Characteristics of a strawberry hemangioma

Answer 1

Benign, occurs in infancy, and regresses spontaneously at 5-8 years of age

Question 2

Characteristics of a cherry hemangioma

Answer 2

Benign, occurs in elderly, DOES NOT regress

Question 3

Characteristics of a pyogenic granuloma

Answer 3

Polypoid capillary hemangioma that can ulcerate and bleed

Question 4

Characteristics of a cystic hygroma

Answer 4

Cavernous lymphangioma of the neck, presents as a compressible mass that transilluminates, typically on the left side

Question 5

Conditions associated with cystic hygromas

Answer 5

Turners, trisomies 13, 18 and 21

Question 6

Characteristics of a glomus tumor

Answer 6

Benign, painful, red-blue tumor under the fingernails

Question 7

Causative agent of bacillary angiomatosis

Answer 7

Bartonella henselae

Question 8

Typical patient population that develops angiosarcoma

Answer 8

Patients receiving radiation therapy, especially for breast cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Question 9

Characteristics of lymphangiosarcoma

Answer 9

Lymphatic malignancy associated with persistent lymphedema (e.g post-radical mastectomy)

Question 10

Two viruses associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma

Answer 10

HHV-8 and HIV