A hemangioma or haemangioma is a usually benign vascular tumor derived from blood vessel cell types.

A hemangioma can occur anywhere on the body, but most commonly appears on the face, scalp, chest or back.

[1] The first line treatment option is beta blockers, which are highly effective in the majority of cases.

The correct terminology for these hemangioma types is constantly being updated by the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA).

They are made up of blood vessels, often called strawberry marks, and are more common in girls than in boys.

They are fully formed at birth, meaning that they do not grow after a child is born, as infantile hemangiomas do.

Drug-induced hemangiomas are reported side-effects for some drugs in nonclinical toxicology animal models, studying carcinogenesis.

For example, hemangiomas of the mesenteric lymph node were increased significantly at 700 mg/kg/day of Empagliflozin in male rats, or approximately 42 times the exposure from a 25 mg clinical dose.

However, hemangiomas that may be disfiguring or that are located at sites that can cause impairment (eyelids, airway) require early treatment intervention, typically with beta blockers.