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Healing hemangiomas

Defective signaling of vascular endothelial growth factor seems to underlie the development of hemangiomas, disfiguring tumors arising early in life (pages 1236–1246).

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Figure 1: Imbalanced VEGFR1 and VEGFR2 function in hemangioma.

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Claesson-Welsh, L. Healing hemangiomas. Nat Med 14, 1147–1148 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1108-1147

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