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KMID : 1024020150450020123
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Imaging Science in Dentistry
2015 Volume.45 No. 2 p.123 ~ p.131
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The current approach to the diagnosis of vascular anomalies of the head and neck: A pictorial essay
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:Goel Sinny
:Gupta Swati/:Singh Aarti/:Prakash Anjali/:Ghosh Sujoy/:Narang Poonam/:Gupta Sunita
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Abstract
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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.
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KEYWORD
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Hemangioma, Vascular Malformation, Classification, Neck
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