The current approach to the diagnosis of vascular anomalies of the head and neck: A pictorial essay

• Published in: Imaging science in dentistry 2015, 45(2), , pp.123-131
• Main Authors: Goel, Sinny, Gupta, Swati, Singh, Aarti, Prakash, Anjali, Ghosh, Sujoy, Narang, Poonam, Gupta, Sunita
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Pictorial; 치의학
• ISSN: 2233-7822; 2233-7830
• DOI: 10.5624/isd.2015.45.2.123

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.