Congenital tufted angioma with persistent low-grade coagulopathy.
A female infant, born with a tufted angioma, developed a coagulopathy with prolonged bleeding time, with the risk of progression to Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon. The difficulty in this case was judging the degree of this risk and therefore the most appropriate management. We opted for a conservative approach of observation, which was vindicated by the outcome.
Ramesh
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Department of Dermatology, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK. raakhee.ramesh@gmail.com
De Silva
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D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007223:Infant; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors