Cutaneous thoracic hemangioma and internal vascular anomalies

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Pascual-Castroviejo, Ignacio | Pascual-Pascual, Samual Ignacio | Garcia-Guereta, Luis | Goded, Federico

Affiliations: Departments of Pediatric Neurology, University Hospital La Paz. Madrid, Spain | Departments of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital La Paz. Madrid, Spain | Departments of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Hospital La Paz. Madrid, Spain

Note: [] Correspondence: Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo M.D., Orense Street 14, 10° E, 28020- Madrid, Spain. Tel.: +34 91 555 03 56; Fax: +34 91 623 65 72; E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Abstract: We report a male infant with a small thoracic strawberry hemangioma associated with other vascular anomalies: agenesis of the left vertebral artery and hypoplasia of the left carotid artery, and an intestinal hemangioma 45 cm in length removed at 1 1/2 months of age. He also had a severe aortic arch coarctation and ductus arteriosus. He died at the age of 4 months because of cardiac decompensation after surgical correction of the aortic arch coarctation. Neuroradiological study of the cerebral vessels and Central nervous system structures was not performed. Cardiac, aortic arch malformations and anomalies of the cerebral arteries are often associated with cutaneous hemangiomas, and all these features and may be some others define this syndrome.

Keywords: cutaneous hemangioma, Pascual-Castroviejo II syndrome, PHACE, intestinal hemangioma, aortic arch coarctation, strawberry hemangioma

Journal: Journal of Pediatric Neurology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 103-106, 2005