A 10-year-old healthy male presents to your office with a two month history of a rapidly enlarging bright red papule on his chest. Over the past few weeks, it has stabilized in size; however, he ...

They look like bright red moles, but theyre actually growths of blood vessels called cherry angiomas. No one is sure what causes them, but it seems to be genetic.

Strawberry nevus is a fancy name for a red birthmark. This red tinge of skin comes from a collection of blood vessels close to the skin’s surface. These birthmarks most commonly occur in young ...

On further inspection, you note a bright red vascular patch underlying and extending beyond the scaling plaque that is consistent with a nevus simplex (also known as a “stork bite” or ...

Cherry angiomas are often bright red and can grow to resemble smooth domes with flat tops. ... It is easy to confuse cherry angiomas with spider angiomas, which also have a signature red mole.

prominent blood vessels resembling bright red dots, corkscrews, or hairpins In a small number of cases, Spitz nevus growths resemble cancerous melanoma tumors. These are called atypical Spitz ...