Acquired hemangioma: An uncommon vascular cutaneous tumour in elderly persons
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Acquired hemangiomaAbstract
Among recently characterized vascular tumors, tufted angioma or angioblastoma is a benign acquired slowly progressive cutaneous tumor, which most commonly arises in the neck and upper trunk in children and young adults. We describe such a case occurring in an elderly person. Clinically this tumour may closely mimic Kaposi’s sarcoma and should be biopsied for histological confirmation of the diagnosis.References
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