Hemangiomas are clusters of blood vessels that grow that way during fetal deveopment--you are born with them.
It is good to know where they are if they are present, so that any invasive procedure in that area (needles for epidurals etc, or surgeries) can avoid them. If nicked, they can bleed out and be dangerous to the patient. You can bleed to death if they get damaged. I know someone who had this happen with her neck, during and injection into the spine for a pain control procedure. She ended up with more chronic pain because of it and the repair it necessitated.
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