Definition
Definition
Telangiectasia is the dilation of small skin vessels, forming thin red, sometimes purple, lines ranging from a few millimeters to a few centimeters in length.
Generalities
They often form networks called stellate angiomas (interlacing of small vessels in the shape of a star).
Cause
Cause
- Choc, trauma.
- Venous insufficiency lower limbs.
- Following some maladies.
- Radiotherapy : radiation sessions to treat a disease such as cancer, inflammation, etc.
- congenital (symptom of a hereditary disease).
Treatment
Treatment
- Destruction of dilated vessels by electrocoagulation, using an electric scalpel, or the argon laser.
- Scarifications (superficial incisions of the skin, that is to say, lines are made on the surface of the skin using a scalpel or a small pen to vaccinate) in certain stubborn cases
- Some thermal cures seem to give good results thanks to the practice of filiform showers.
Evolution
Differential diagnosis
Telangiectasias should not be confused with rosacea.
Only a dermatologist can tell the difference.
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See also
- Vasa vasorum
- Cutaneous angioma
- angiomas
- Arteriovenous angioma of the central nervous system
- Stellar angioma
- Lymphangioma (general)
- Cancer (cellular mechanism)
- Dilation of organs or vessels
- Erythrocouperose
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- Chorioangioma
- Hemangioma and lymphangioma of the eyelid
- Metabolic radiotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Thermocoagulation
- Vasoactivity, vasoactive
- Venous insufficiency
- Venous insufficiency
- Hydrotherapy
- Liver angioma
- Scalpel
- Cancer (general)