Can someone please help me with this?

TiffanyW · New User Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 1 Location: PA

My 3 1/2 year old son has what I thought was a "strawberry".

It developed from a red freckle to a growth in 3 weeks. Last night it started bleeding & I took him to our pediatrician who said it was a pyogenic granuloma that needed to be excised ASAP.

Can someone tell me if that is indeed what is going on & what it means? Is this possibly a cancer?

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cardoso · Guest

Well, the pictures look like a text-book case. To quote the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology:

[quote]Pyogenic granuloma is a relatively common skin growth. It is usually a small red, oozing and bleeding bump that looks like raw hamburger meat. It often seems to follows a minor injury and grows rapidly over a period of a few weeks to an average size of a half an inch. The head, neck, upper trunk and hands and feet are the most commonly sites.[/quote]

I think the doctor wants to remove it ASAP to avoid a more painfull procedure later, not to mention disconfort and bleeding.

Some malign tumors can mimic a pyogenic granuloma, but they are not common. Don´t forget to ask for a histopathological examination, just to be on the safe side.

More info at the AOCD website:
http://www.aocd.org/skin/dermatologic_diseases/pyogenic_granuloma.html

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