To review the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) classification system of vascular tumors and malformations and stress the importance of using proper nomenclature.
To review the natural growth patterns of common vascular anomalies.
To present a systematic reliable approach to classifying soft tissue vascular anomalies based on clinical presentation, ultrasound imaging and magnetic resonance imaging.
Review the ISSVA classification system
Stress the need for a classification system
Review out of vogue terms
Briefly review embryology and pathogenesis of common vascular anomalies
General approach to vascular anomalies
Relevant clinical information
Ultrasound findings
MRI findingsd
Sample cases
Summary
Meagher, R,
Lightfoot, C,
Systematic Approach to Soft Tissue Vascular Anomalies. Not Everything Is a Hemangioma!. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14015445.html
