HEMANGIOMA

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HEMANGIOMA

Definition: congenital anomaly, in which proliferation of blood vessels leads to a mass that resembles a neoplasm, it can ocurr anywhere in the body, but it is most frequently noticed in the skin and subcutaneous tissues.

Conceptual Structures
ISA	ENDOTHELIOMA
SUBCLASSES	GLOMUS-JUGULAR-TUMOR
DESCENDANTS	GLOMUS-JUGULAR-TUMOR
ANCESTORS	ALL BENIGN-NEOPLASM CHANGE-STATE CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL DISEASE-EVENT ENDOTHELIOMA EVENT HAVE-NEOPLASM HEMANGIOMA-AND-LYMPHANGIOMA-ANY-SITE LIVING-EVENT MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-BODY-PART MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-SKIN-AND-BREAST- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-CONNECTIVE-AND-OTHER-SOFT-TISSUE PHYSICAL-EVENT
INHERITED RELATIONS	AFFECTS-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM : PART-OF-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AFFECTS-TISSUE : TISSUE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AGENT : BACTERIA (from DISEASE-EVENT ) CAUSED-BY : CARCINOGEN (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH : DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : MEDICAL-DEVICE (from DISEASE-EVENT ) EXPERIENCER : PATIENT (from DISEASE-EVENT ) LOCATION : PLACE (from PHYSICAL-EVENT ) THEME : OBJECT (from CHANGE-STATE ) TREATED-WITH : CANCER-TREATMENT (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) TREATED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : PHARMACEUTICAL-MATERIAL (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) MEDICAL-DEVICE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM )
INHERITED ATTRIBUTES	DIRECTION-OF-CHANGE : NEGATIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) POSITIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) TYPE-OF-CHANGE : PHYSICAL (from DISEASE-EVENT ) MENTAL (from DISEASE-EVENT )