Diagnosis and Management of a Pediatric Lower Lip Hemangioma: A Case Report

Hemangioma is one of the most common tumors in children. Hemangiomas can occur in any
organ or tissue of the body, but are more common on the skin or subcutaneous tissue and mucous
membranes of the oral cavity and lips.
To report the diagnosis and management of a case of hemangioma of the pediatric lower lip.
A 9-year-old child came with his mother to the hospital with a chief complaint of painless
swelling of the reddish-colored mucosa of the right lip. The patient complained of impaired eating,
speaking and aesthetic function. The patient was diagnosed with hemagioma of the lower lip, after
which full excision was perfomed. The definitive diagnosis was obtained from histopathologic
examination.
The patient's hemangioma of the lower lip was successfully treated with surgical excision
procedure and no post-operative recurrence was found.