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strawberry mark
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mark (mahrk) a spot, blemish, or other circumscribed area visible on a surface.
birth mark  see birthmark.
port-wine mark  nevus flammeus.
strawberry mark 

straw·ber·ry mark (strôbr)
n.
A raised, shiny, red nevus or birthmark, occurring usually on the face or scalp and resembling a strawberry. Also called strawberry nevus.

strawberry hemangioma, strawberry mark.
Strawberry Haemangioma
A raised, irregular, bright-red capillary haemangioma or reactive proliferation of small subdermal vessels seen in infancy, which expands aggressively for several years and then involutes or disappears—90% are gone by age 7
Management Excision if necessary or high-dose prednisone

mark 
a spot, blemish, or other circumscribed area visible on the skin or a mucous membrane.
raspberry mark (strawberry mark) congenital hemangioma.

strawberry mark
a local granulomatous nodule in the intestinal wall of pigs caused by the deep penetration of the proboscis of Macrocanthoryncus hirudinaceus.


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The symptoms associated with angioma include birthmarks as many of them are actually angiomas, stork bites which is a common type of strawberry birthmark, portwine stains which are also referred to as nevus flammeus and strawberry marks which are caused by capillary hemangiomas.
Traditionally, strawberry marks are left to fade on their own rather than being surgically removed.
EMILY FOX Address supplied They do go away IWOULD like to congratulate you on your article in the Sunday Mercury,September 5 about strawberry marks.
 
 
 
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