Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, February 1st, 2002
Every year, about 400,000 infants in the US are born with or soon develop vascular birthmarks. These birthmarks vary from small port-wine-colored stains on an unobvious part of the body to noticeable, disfiguring growths on the face. About 10% of these birthmarks, some of which obstruct sight, breathing, or speech development, require medical intervention. Children with these disfiguring growths are often rejected by others; and, their parents have been falsely accused of child abuse by the ignorant.
One type of birthmark that requires medical treatment is vascular malformation, which consi...
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