The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 2018 , Vol 60 , Num 2
Tufted angioma arising at the site of hepatitis B vaccination: A case report
Mozhdeh Sepaskhah 1 ,Jalal Hajizadeh 1 ,Fatemeh Sari-Aslani 1 ,Farideh Jowkar 1
1 Molecular Dermatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran DOI : 10.24953/turkjped.2018.02.011 Sepaskhah M, Hajizadeh J, Sari-Aslani F, Jowkar F. Tufted angioma arising at the site of hepatitis B vaccination: A case report. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 188-190.

Tufted angioma is a benign vascular proliferation which presents most commonly in infants and children and could occasionally be complicated by Kasabach-Merritt syndrome. Here, we report a 4-month-old girl with erythematous firm plaque on left thigh at the site of hepatitis B vaccine injection accompanied with thrombocytopenia. Histological examination showed multiple lobules of capillary sized vascular proliferation in the dermis and subcutaneous fat (cannonball appearance) with dilated thin walled vascular channels at the periphery of the lobules. According to our search this patient is the second case of tufted angioma arising at the site of vaccination. Keywords : skin neoplasms, hemangioma, vaccination, infant

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