• Question: why do people end up with hemangioma's or turtle backs?

    Asked by thingone to Anil, Blanka, Cees, Emma, Mike on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Blanka Sengerova

      Blanka Sengerova answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      What are turtle backs, this is the first I’ve heard of them?

      As for hemangioma, I had to look this up, but apparently it is a bening (i.e. harmless) swelling of blood vessels to cause small red growths on the skin or deeper down in your body. But I have to admit I don’t really know much about it so would be looking at pages such as this one http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002430/ for information…

    • Photo: Emma Trantham

      Emma Trantham answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Blanka’s covered what I know about hemangiomas.

      I had a search for turtle backs and the only thing I can come up with is tortoise shell/turtle back liver which is a description of what the liver looks like in some dieases – is that the sort of thing you mean?

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