An eight-month-old baby's fast-growing mark on the ear was misdiagnosed by doctors as a birthmark, but on the mother's insistence, an MRI scan confirmed an aggressive vascular tumour. Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma primarily affects infants and is mostly characterised by its potential to cause Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon, a life-threatening condition involving severe thrombocytopenia.
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23 Jul