Check Disease » Surgical treatment http://checkdisease.com Advanced online source on all possible human diseases Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:30:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hemangioma treatment http://checkdisease.com/skin-diseases/hemangioma-treatment/ http://checkdisease.com/skin-diseases/hemangioma-treatment/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:53:45 +0000 Antony Zimmer http://checkdisease.com/?p=128 Continue reading →]]> hemangioma treatmentSurgical treatment is used when the vascular tumor is localized too deep and it could be removed wholly without much cosmetic damage or when other methods of treatment are supposed to be ineffective.
Radiotherapy is used in complicated cases when Hemangioma is localized in areas where other methods of treatment are impossible to use (e.g. eye socket region). Radiotherapy is intended for treating simple Hemangioma, when it affects large areas of skin.
Radiotherapy is carried out by separate fractions with intervals varying from 2-4 weeks to 2-6 months. Tiny Hemangioma localized in regions inaccessible for other methods of treatment are treated with electrocoagulation.  Bleeding Hemangioma are treated with electrocoagulation too.
Electrocoagulation is not used for treating deeply located and spreading types of Hemangioma.

Sclerosing is used for treating small but deeply localized vascular tumors, especially cavernous and mixed Hemangioma on the face and tip of the nose. For sclerosing a 70% alcohol is used.
The disadvantages of sclerosing therapy include painfulness and prolonged course of the treatment.
The advantage of injection therapy against other conservative methods consists in its simplicity.
One of the new methods of treatments of spreading Hemangioma in children is hormonal therapy with prednisolone.  Hormonal therapy is a rather efficient method of treatment, however its high effectiveness (98%) does not provide desired cosmetic effect.  This method stops the vascular tumor growth and is used as a supplemental treatment.
Cryogenic therapy (treatment with low-temperature impact) is used for simple Hemangioma of any localization. It does not require anesthesia and is carried out in the outpatient setting.

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