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Atlas of dermatopathology
Josef Feit, Hana Jedličková, Günter Burg, Luděk Matyska, Spasoje Radovanovic et al.
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+ Introduction
+ Literature
+ Support
+ Skin biopsy
+ Non-tumorous skin diseases
+ Skin tumors
+ Cysts of the skin and subcutis
+ Soft tissue lesions
+ Some lesions of the oral cavity
+ Dermatovenerology
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Günter Burg
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Werner Kempf
+ Collection of histological slides of dr. Ram Chandra Adhikari
Targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma
Clinical signs
  • location: usually extremities
  • age: usually young adults
  • flat angiomatous patch, often of targetoid appearance (rusty colored papule in the middle, surrounded by paler, erythematous ring, and that is again surrounded by darker area with ecchymoses)
Histology

Superficially dilated blood vessels with prominent hobnail endothelial cells with intraluminal endothelial tufts (papillary endothelial protrusions). On the deep periphery slitlike vascular lumens. Slight lymphocytic infiltrate, sometimes single thrombi, usually prominent deposits of hemosiderin

Targetoid hemosiderotic hemangioma (4125)