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Vascular Birthmarks

Telangiectasia

  • Stork marks
    These can present on the forehead, upper eyelids and on the back of the neck. They tend to be pale pink in colour. Stork marks, especially those on the upper eyelids, fade within two years. Those on the forehead may take up to four years to fade. The ones on the back of the neck usually persist.
  • Spider Naevi
    Individual marks which are superficial blood vessels, often have the appearance of a spider with a central darker red punctate with radiating blood vessels like thread veins, Others can be slightly raised from the surface of the skin as a red spot or diffused with a flat mark known as a matt telangiectasia.

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Medical text written August 2001 by Dr S B Syed. Last updated January 2006 by Dr S B Syed, Associate Specialist in Paediatric Dermatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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