Infantile hemangioma – A case report

Infantile hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors in infancy affecting 5-10% of the population and are largely composed of densely packed over proliferating capillaries with high cellular density and the absence of open lumen. These lesions are 3 times more prevalent in females than males. During first year of life these tumors are strongly proliferative in nature. These lesions subsequently stabilize and further undergo spontaneous slow involution and fully regressed by 5-10 years. We are, here now presenting a case of 7 years old female child with vascular swelling on left side of upper lip. There was no birth mark at the time of her birth but later on swelling in upper lip appeared which progressively increased in size, with a tendency to easy bleed, followed by regression, suggesting a case of infantile hemangioma.