Oral capillary hemangioma in a ten year old female child with hepatitis B treated with monopolar electrocautery

Abstract

Capillary hemangioma is a benign, vascular tumor characterized by proliferation of blood vessels that are primarily reported to be a developmental hamartomatous lesion of infancy and childhood. Till date, many cases of capillary hemangiomas have been reported in the literature, but juvenile hemangiomas with other systemic manifestations such as hepatitis B have not been studied well so far. The present paper reports a rare case of capillary hemangioma in a ten-year-old female with hepatitis B, which was treated under general anesthesia using electrocautery and followed up for one year and no recurrence was found.

Keywords: Capillary hemangioma; excision; hepatitis B; histopathology; pediatric hemangiomas; vascular tumors.

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Intraoral preoperative image of the lesion

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Tissue was excised using monopolar electrocautery

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Surgical site 24 hours after the excision of the lesion

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Surgically excised lesion stored in 10% neutral buffered formalin solution

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(a-d) Histopathological section of the excised lesion

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6-month follow-up

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One-year follow-up