
Diagnosis: Venous lake
Description: Dark-blue compressible nodule.
Morphology: Swelling
Site: Tongue
Sex: M
Age: 60
Type: Clinical
Submitted By: Nameer Al-Sudany
Differential DiagnosisHistory:
A 60-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic small grape or raisin-like compressible papulonodule on the base of the frenulum of the tongue (yellow-arrow) of 2 years duration. No associated skin or systemic findings. The lesion was removed in toto as an excisional therapeutic-diagnostic biopsy and the result was “a dilated blood-filled vascular channel lined with a single layer of flattened endothelial cells and a thin wall of fibrous tissue filled with red blood cells."