Welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 532 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. In today's podcast,

we're going to continue our rapid review series for the USMAD Step 2, CK, and Step 3 exams. This is going to be series 114.

Let's begin. So what if they give you a question about a two-month-old child?

They tell you that he is brought to the office by his parents for a wellness exam.

And you're told that the parents are concerned about a lesion that they find around the child's

bodocks.

And we're told that, oh, it's a red lesion and it's been growing slowly.

And then you're asked what's the most likely outcome of this lesion.

In fact, sometimes they can show you a picture of this lesion.

What should you be thinking about?

Well, I really hope you're saying, oh, divine, this sounds a lot like strawberry hemangeoma.

There are many names they like to use for this on exams.

They can call them a strawberry hemorrhoa. They can call them a capillary humangeoma. But this is something that is pretty high

you'll to know for your test. And one kind of question I will strongly encourage you to make sure

that you're mentally prepared for as you're taking the USMALs these days is to ask yourself,

what is the likely outcome of this disorder? That's one of the ways they love to test prognosis on the

USMALEs. Many people ignore it, but trust me, that's a very bad idea. It's a very, very bad idea.

So the most likely outcome is it will grow and then it will resolve. It will grow and then it will resolve. Make sure you know that.

These hemangiomas many times, they are vascular, there's not many times. They're pretty much

vascular tumors. And they will grow, grow, grow, grow, grow very quickly, you know, many times from angiogenesis. As you see, why in a bit, but they grow rapidly from angiogenesis. And then after a while, they just regress over time. So basically, if they were to ask you, what's your next best step in management?

Just reassurance.

That's pretty much all you need to do for the parents, right?

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