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==Where to find medical care for cancer?== | ==Where to find medical care for cancer?== | ||
Revision as of 17:55, 18 August 2009
| Angioma (patient information) | |
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| A capillary haemangioma | |
| ICD-10 | D18.0 |
| ICD-9 | 228.0 |
| ICD-O: | Template:ICDO |
| DiseasesDB | 30033 |
| MedlinePlus | 001459 |
| eMedicine | orthoped/499 |
| MeSH | D006391 |
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What is angioma?
Angioma, is also called hemangioma, cavernous hemangioma and strawberry nevus. It is an abnormal build up of blood vessels in the skin or internal organs such as liver and brain. It is not a true cancer. Usual signs in the skin are a red to reddish-purple raised sore on the skin, or a massive raised tumor with blood vessels. Angioma in internal organs can be checked out by regular examinations. Patients may feel no discomfortable. Angioma in skin can be diagnosed by a dermatologist and internal organs angioma can be detected by image scan.
How do I know if I have angioma and what are the symptoms of angioma?
Skin angioma: Skin angioma can be diagnosed by your dermatologist. Most hemangiomas are on the face and neck and the usual signs are the following:
- A red to reddish-purple, raised sore on the skin
- A massive, raised tumor with blood vessels
Internal organ angioma: Patients with internal organ angioma may not feel any discomfortable at the beginning. When the angioma grows larger, some symptoms may appear.
- Pain: This is the compression of angioma on normal tissues.
- Bleeding: The wall of angioma is very weak. The angioma has the risk of rupturing and bleeding. When bleeding, it is dangerous and can cause death.
- Dysfunction of the internal organs: In liver, the angioma can cause liver dysfunction and appear jaundice and dyspepsia. In brain, large angioma can compress important nervous center and may cause feeling disorders, movements disorders and even hemiplegia.
Who is at risk for angioma?
Data from angioma alliance suggest that risk factor statistics for angioma is the following:
- There is a 1 in 200 chance of having a cavernous angioma if the parent has a solitary cavernous angioma in the US
- There is a 50% chance of having a cavernous angioma if the parent has a multiple cavernous angiomas in the US
How to know you have angioma?
Skin angioma: Skin angioma can be detected by your dermatologist by a physical examination.
Internal organs angioma: Internal organs angioma can be found by image scans such as ultrasound, CT or MRI. These image scans can confirm the location of the angioma and show the organs around the angioma.
When to seek urgent medical care?
Call your health care provider if symptoms of angioma develop. If you experience either of the following symptoms, seeking urgent medical care as soon as possible:
- Secondary infection of skin angioma
- Local severe pain: such as severe headache, severe abdominal pain.
- Dysfunction of internal organs
Treatment options
Skin angioma: Small skin angioma need no treatment. When angioma interfere with vision, breathing, or threaten significant cosmetic injury, they are usually treated.
- Drugs therapy: First oral corticosteroid, then interferon or vincristine if the former does not work.
- Injection therapy: Injection of corticosteroid directly into the lesion.
- Surgery
Internal organs angioma: The treatment depends on how big the angioma is.
- Small angioma: Small angioma does not need any treatment, just regular check.
- Large angioma: Large angioma need to treat by surgery, intervention and radiotherapy.
Diseases with similar symptoms
- Skin angioma need to differ from bleeding node on the skin.
- Internal organs angioma should be differ from organ cancers.
Where to find medical care for cancer?
Directions to Hospitals Treating angioma
Prevention of angioma
What to expect (Outook/Prognosis)?
Copyleft Sources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001459.htm
http://www.angiomaalliance.org/pages.aspx?content=60