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Descriptor English: Port-Wine Stain
Descriptor Spanish: Mancha Vino de Oporto
Descriptor mancha vino de Oporto
Entry term(s) nevo flammeus
Scope note: Malformación vascular del desarrollo que se caracteriza histológicamente por ectasia de los capilares dérmicos superficiales, y clínicamente por eritema macular persistente. En el pasado, las manchas oporto se llamaron con frecuencia hemangiomas capilares, y no lo son; lamentablemente, aún persiste esta confusa práctica: el HEMANGIOMA CAPILAR es una neoplasia, la mancha de oporto no es una neoplasia. Las manchas oporto varían de color desde rosado pálido hasta rojo oscuro o púrpura y en tamaño desde unos pocos milímetros a muchos centímetros de diámetro. La cara es el sitio más frecuentemente afectado y a menudo son unilaterales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mancha Vinho do Porto
Descriptor French: Tache lie de vin
Entry term(s): Nevus Flammeus
Port Wine Stain
Port-Wine Stains
Stain, Port-Wine
Stains, Port-Wine
Tree number(s): C16.131.831.675
C17.800.804.675
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019339
Scope note: A vascular malformation of developmental origin characterized pathologically by ectasia of superficial dermal capillaries, and clinically by persistent macular erythema. In the past, port wine stains have frequently been termed capillary hemangiomas, which they are not; unfortunately this confusing practice persists: HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY is neoplastic, a port-wine stain is non-neoplastic. Port-wine stains vary in color from fairly pale pink to deep red or purple and in size from a few millimeters to many centimeters in diameter. The face is the most frequently affected site and they are most often unilateral. (From Rook et al., Textbook of Dermatology, 5th ed, p483)
Annotation: distinguish from HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 32955
Unique ID: D019339
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Port-Wine Stain - Preferred
Concept UI M0028788
Scope note A vascular malformation of developmental origin characterized pathologically by ectasia of superficial dermal capillaries, and clinically by persistent macular erythema. In the past, port wine stains have frequently been termed capillary hemangiomas, which they are not; unfortunately this confusing practice persists: HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY is neoplastic, a port-wine stain is non-neoplastic. Port-wine stains vary in color from fairly pale pink to deep red or purple and in size from a few millimeters to many centimeters in diameter. The face is the most frequently affected site and they are most often unilateral. (From Rook et al., Textbook of Dermatology, 5th ed, p483)
Preferred term Port-Wine Stain
Entry term(s) Nevus Flammeus
Port Wine Stain
Port-Wine Stains
Stain, Port-Wine
Stains, Port-Wine



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