H Winter1, E Dräger, W Sterry. 1. Department of Dermatology, Charité University Medical Center, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: While sclerotherapy in chronic venous insufficiency and in hemorrhoids is well established, the use of sclerotherapy for hemangiomas of the skin is widely unknown. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to analyze the clinical value of sclerotherapy with polidocanol in a larger population. METHODS: Over a period of 20 years (1975-1995) we performed sclerotherapy of hemangiomas and vascular malformations in a total of 157 patients. Their ages ranged from 3 months to 75 years. Among these were 87 (55.4%) children and adolescents (up to the age of 18). Sclerotherapy with polidocanol was carried out mostly at monstrous or rapidly growing cavernous hemangiomas mainly localized in the face. RESULTS: One to three injections was usually sufficient to obtain the sclerosis effect; aesthetically, long-term results were convincing. Severe complications were not observed. CONCLUSION: Sclerotherapy of hemangiomas is a relatively simple, effective, and inexpensive method that is a valuable and promising treatment.
BACKGROUND: While sclerotherapy in chronic venous insufficiency and in hemorrhoids is well established, the use of sclerotherapy for hemangiomas of the skin is widely unknown. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to analyze the clinical value of sclerotherapy with polidocanol in a larger population. METHODS: Over a period of 20 years (1975-1995) we performed sclerotherapy of hemangiomas and vascular malformations in a total of 157 patients. Their ages ranged from 3 months to 75 years. Among these were 87 (55.4%) children and adolescents (up to the age of 18). Sclerotherapy with polidocanol was carried out mostly at monstrous or rapidly growing cavernous hemangiomas mainly localized in the face. RESULTS: One to three injections was usually sufficient to obtain the sclerosis effect; aesthetically, long-term results were convincing. Severe complications were not observed. CONCLUSION: Sclerotherapy of hemangiomas is a relatively simple, effective, and inexpensive method that is a valuable and promising treatment.
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