title: Rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma associated with profound, transient thrombocytopenia.
abstract: Rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma (RICH) is an uncommon, often high-flow vascular tumor that presents at birth and involutes within the first year of life. It is clinically and histologically distinct from infantile hemangioma, kaposiform hemangioendothelioma, and tufted angioma, the latter two being associated with Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon. We present a female infant with RICH and profound, transient thrombocytopenia and review the extent and clinical course of thrombocytopenia in the context of congenital vascular tumors.
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TexasDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CaliforniaDepartment of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MinnesotaDepartments of Dermatology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado.
authors.forename: Sophia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rangwala
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wysong
authors.forename: Megha M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Tollefson
authors.forename: Phuong
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Khuu
authors.forename: Latanya T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Benjamin
authors.forename: Anna L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Bruckner
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006390:Hemangioendothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D059885:Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*