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A venous lake (also known as phlebectasis [1]) is a generally solitary, soft, compressible, dark blue to violaceous, 0.2- to 1-cm papule commonly found on sun-exposed surfaces of the vermilion border of the lip, face and ears. [2] [3] [4] Lesions generally occur among the elderly. [5] [6]
Melanoma is a malignant proliferation of melanocytes and the most aggressive type of skin cancer. [80] [81] [82] Acral lentiginous melanoma Nodular melanoma; Amelanotic melanoma; Animal-type melanoma; Desmoplastic melanoma (neurotropic melanoma, spindled melanoma) Lentigo maligna (lentiginous melanoma on sun-damaged skin) Lentigo maligna melanoma
Angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive cancer that starts in the endothelial cells that line the walls of blood vessels or lymphatic vessels.Since they are made from vascular lining, they can appear anywhere and at any age, but older people are more commonly affected, and the skin is the most affected area, with approximately 60% of cases being cutaneous (skin).
Dermatologist Lindsey Zubritsky is "begging" her 1.4 million TikTok followers to check their nails for a vertical line, which could indicate a subungual melanoma, a rare, but serious skin cancer ...
Superficial spreading melanoma (SSM) is a type of skin cancer that typically starts as an irregularly edged dark spot typically on sun-exposed part of the body. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The colour may be variable with dark, light and reddish shades; occasionally no color at all. [ 2 ]
They are found on the neck, shoulders, and trunk as rounded nodules. [11] Tufted angiomas are usually poorly defined lesions of purple colouration. [ 12 ] The tumors are of tufts of capillary-sized vessels in lobules that are scattered in the skin, and that sometimes reach into the subcutaneous tissue, and have lymph vessels on the periphery.
Head and neck cancer is a general term encompassing multiple cancers that can develop in the head and neck region. These include cancers of the mouth, tongue, gums and lips ( oral cancer ), voice box ( laryngeal ), throat ( nasopharyngeal , oropharyngeal , [ 1 ] hypopharyngeal ), salivary glands , nose and sinuses .
A hemangioma or haemangioma is a usually benign vascular tumor derived from blood vessel cell types. The most common form, seen in infants, is an infantile hemangioma, known colloquially as a "strawberry mark", most commonly presenting on the skin at birth or in the first weeks of life.