Conjunctival Hemangioma

Clinical Features

• Symptoms:
  • Small-sized tumor, mostly asymptomatic or cause mild ocular irritation
  • Spontaneous bleeding or bloody tears.
• Signs:
  • Benign, slowly progressive, bright red patch of vessels with sometimes ill-defined margins
  • Typically rounded, nodular, polypoid or lobulated, may grow and reach an enormous size of mass
  • May be found as an isolated lesion or associated with other ocular capillary hemangiomas or systemic diseases such as Sturge-Weber syndrome
  • Multiple or multi focalized hemangiomas are usually independent and separated from one another with little connection with the surrounding vessels.

Management

• Observation for increase in size, number of lesions, and morphological changes.
• Surgical excision, electrolysis and thermocoagulation have been used with success.