Birthmarks

Perhaps to offset the high misdiagnosis rate of vascular anomalies, one expert, Dr. Orhan Konez, M.D., has created an excellent resource about all types of birthmarks for medical practitioners who do not specialize in this disorder.

Birthmarks are very common and we do not generally notice or think much of the small ones. But birthmarks are also known as vascular anomalies, and they can be large and severe. One in every ten children is born with a birthmark and between fifty and sixty percent of them will require some form of treatment. Also, disturbingly, more than 60% of those are misdiagnosed.