Abstract
AN INTRAMUSCULAR HAEMANGIOMA ASSOCIATED WITH MULTIPLE CAFÉ AU LAIT SPOTS: A CASE REPORT Marzouk Al Bader, Emad K Farid , Bahgat A Thabet Department of Surgery, Vascular Unit, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital , Kuwait . Abstract This report details the diagnosis and management of a 13-years-old girl with an intramuscular haemangioma on the left side of the chest wall associated with multiple cafe au lait spots (CALS). All previous cases of intramuscular haemangioma are present in the literature however none of them seems to be associated with multiple CALS. Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain whether such an association, in an otherwise healthy individual, is a new genetic syndrome or a mere coincidental finding.
Highlights
This report details the diagnosis and management of a 13-years-old girl with an intramuscular haemangioma on the left side of the chest wall associated with multiple cafe au lait spots (CALS)
There are two main theories attributed to the aetiology of intramuscular haemangioma
This is supported by a review of 1363 haemangiomas of which 73% were evident at birth[1,3]
Summary
This report details the diagnosis and management of a 13-years-old girl with an intramuscular haemangioma on the left side of the chest wall associated with multiple cafe au lait spots (CALS). A 13 year old girl was admitted to Mubark Al-Kabeer Hospital in Kuwait in July 2002 with swelling on the left side of the chest. On examination the swelling was situated at the level of fifth to seventh ribs on the anterolateral aspect of the left side of the chest. General examination revealed multiple cafe au lait spots (Fig 1) and no other swellings could be detected .The patient otherwise was normal.
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