Vascuiar Lesions of Skin 



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round, the small ones flat, the lar<>e ones elevated and dome- 

 shaped. In most persons when the large ones oceur, magni- 

 fication of twenty times reveals many smaller ones with but one 



20 



40 60 

 PERCENT 



80 100 



Fig. 2. The increasing incidence of venous stars with increasing 

 age. In every decade women outnumber men. The bars indicate 

 the percentage of all subjects found to have one or more lesions. 



10- 19 



70-79 



20 

 Fig. 3. Incidence of cherrv angioma by sex and decade. 



40 60 80 100 

 PERCENT 



or a few capillary tufts. Pressure partly blanches the lesion 

 and the colour and the natural shape are restored after about 

 a minute. Age: Fig. 3 shows the rapidly rising incidence 



