What Is Spider Angioma?
A spider angioma is a cluster of blood vessels which can be easily seen right beneath the skin, and that usually surround a red dot or lesion. Literature describes these angiomas as bearing some similarity to a spider web, or to a spider body with legs. Either explanation works as a description of a spider angioma. Typically, though this condition may be obvious, it doesn’t require treatment and will resolve on its own. Perhaps as many as half of all children will have at least one during their lifetimes, and they’re quite common in pregnant women or in women on hormonal birth control.
