Cutaneous Keratotic Hemangioma

Abstract

Eight patients with developmental vascular tumours located on the volar side of the fingers are reported. The lesions clinically appeared as small vascular ectasias covered by an area of horny overgrowth. Microscopically they were mixed type hemangiomas with dominance of capillary-like elements, located in the epidermis, the dermis and the subcutis. The operative treatment by simple wedge excision was definite. Such lesions are described and named differently in the literature and the clinical and histological aspects of the differential diagnosis are discussed. We propose this entity to be named cutaneous keratotic hemangioma.