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Capillary infantile hemangioma

Somatic capillary infantile hemangioma is a benign red skin tumor quite often found in newborns and infants. In the tumaor cells mutations of the genes FLT4 and KDR can be found.

Systematic

Capillary infantile hemangioma
Capillary infantile hemangioma
FLT4
Capillary infantile hemangioma with germline mutation
FLT4

References:

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Walter JW et al. (2002) Somatic mutation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors in juvenile hemangioma.

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Blei F et al. (1998) Familial segregation of hemangiomas and vascular malformations as an autosomal dominant trait.

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Walter JW et al. (1999) Genetic mapping of a novel familial form of infantile hemangioma.

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Breugem CC et al. (2002) A locus for hereditary capillary malformations mapped on chromosome 5q.

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Ritter MR et al. (2002) Insulin-like growth factor 2 and potential regulators of hemangioma growth and involution identified by large-scale expression analysis.

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Waner M et al. (2003) The nonrandom distribution of facial hemangiomas.

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Spring MA et al. (2005) Cutaneous vascular lesions.

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Pramanik K et al. (2009) Dusp-5 and Snrk-1 coordinately function during vascular development and disease.

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Jinnin M et al. (2008) Suppressed NFAT-dependent VEGFR1 expression and constitutive VEGFR2 signaling in infantile hemangioma.

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OMIM.ORG article

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