title: The current approach to the diagnosis of vascular anomalies of the head and neck: A pictorial essay.
abstract: Throughout the years, various classifications have evolved for the diagnosis of vascular anomalies. However, it remains difficult to classify a number of such lesions. Because all hemangiomas were previously considered to involute, if a lesion with imaging and clinical characteristics of hemangioma does not involute, then there is no subclass in which to classify such a lesion, as reported in one of our cases. The recent classification proposed by the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA, 2014) has solved this problem by including non-involuting and partially involuting hemangioma in the classification. We present here five cases of vascular anomalies and discuss their diagnosis in accordance with the ISSVA (2014) classification. A non-involuting lesion should not always be diagnosed as a vascular malformation. A non-involuting lesion can be either a hemangioma or a vascular malformation depending upon its clinicopathologic and imaging characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sinny
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goel
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiodiagnosis, Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Hospital, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Swati
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Aarti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiodiagnosis, Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Hospital, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sujoy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiodiagnosis, Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Poonam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Narang
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sunita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Classification; Hemangioma; Neck; Vascular Malformation