[Intergluteal angiokeratoma circumscriptum. Report of one case].
BACKGROUND
The term angiokeratoma is applied to several diseases with cutaneous vascular lesions.


METHODS
A 26-year-old male presented with an intergluteal tumor from childhood until the present time, which was treated on several occasions without results. The patient presented to the hospital complaining of a painful and bleeding intergluteal tumor.


CONCLUSIONS
Five types of angiokeratomas have been described (angiokeratoma corporis diffusum, angiokeratoma of Mibelli, angiokeratoma of Fordyce, solitary angiokeratoma and angiokeratoma corporal circumscriptum). This patient was identified with an angiokeratoma circumscriptum by pathological and physical characteristics of the tumor. Differential diagnosis is with verrucous hemangioma and the Fabry disease type II (angiokeratoma corporis diffusum).


CONCLUSIONS
Pathogenesis is unknown and surgery is the recommended treatment.
Sierra-Luzuriaga
Gastón
G
Servicio de Coloproctología, Hospital del IESS, Ecuador. gesierra21@yahoo.com
Sierra-Montenegro
Ernesto
E
Carrillo-Vedova
César
C
Leone-Stay
Gaetano
G
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