A granuloma pyogenicum or telangiectaticum is a benign blood vessel proliferation, this location will eventually heal but a scar will be present.<\/p>\n
It is a reaction of the blood vessels on injury (sometimes even a minor injury) and occurs mainly in young people\/children. Sometimes it turns black as the piece dies. The preferred spots are: hands, face and mouth lining. It bleeds very easily and often. Children from 6-12 months old are wrongly told by general practitioners that this is a ‘bloody hemangioma’. This is often a granuloma telangiectaticum. The place can be frozen with nitrogen but this does not often help. Surgical removal is the option. The piece is then sent for a definitive diagnosis and can also be viewed under a microscope by the pathologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A granuloma pyogenicum or telangiectaticum is a benign blood vessel proliferation, this location will eventually heal but a scar will be present. It is a reaction of the blood vessels on injury (sometimes even a minor injury) and occurs mainly in young people\/children. Sometimes it turns black as the piece dies. The preferred spots are: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500,"parent":72878,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"aw-modules\/awcf_create_page_templates_with_elementor_content\/page-templates\/page-aw-page-template-67351.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-451","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n