Superficial spreading capillary hemangioma. A peculiar type of capillary hemangioma

Abstract

A 57-year-old Japanese woman had a history of several years of a slowly growing, dark red plaque on the sole of her foot without any subjective symptoms. Histopathologically, the lesion was a capillary hemangioma which showed a lobular structure composed of newly formed capillaries. Each lobule was separated by thin elongated rete ridges. The lesions was definitely circumscribed in papillary and subpapillary layers and appeared to extend laterally.