Pediatric Hemangioma, Interventional Efficacy

The child was born with a hemangioma in the jaw, but it was small and not easily visible. With the increase of months, the hemangioma increased in size, the volume is close to the size of an apple, and spread to the left ear, which has seriously affected the appearance of the child. The child’s family was very nervous, worrying that if the disease progressed, the consequences would be unimaginable, and a beautiful little girl would really become an ugly duckling. They sought for medical treatment from many places, and also carried out percutaneous puncture sclerotherapy for hemangioma, but the effect was not good, and the disease was still not under good control. Then she came to our hospital for consultation, and after the consultation of doctors in the general interventional diagnosis and treatment ward, she was treated with sclerotherapy of hemangioma by femoral artery approach for two times, and her hemangioma was obviously shrunk, and the disease was under good control. As we all know, hemangioma is a common disease that occurs in infants and young children. It often has no obvious symptoms at birth, but clinical symptoms may appear in January, and it grows rapidly in the first year, and most of the children can subside naturally at the age of 5-6 years old, while a small number of children need to be intervened through treatment. Due to the fact that hemangioma lesions can involve the skin, soft tissues, small arteries, small veins and capillaries, and even jeopardize the brain, liver and other important organs. They can seriously affect the appearance of the child on the face, and may have functional effects on the limbs. At present, conventional treatment methods include drug therapy, cryotherapy, laser therapy, surgical resection, local sclerotherapy, etc. However, the treatment effect is not good for larger tumors, and they are easy to recur or leave after-effects. At present, our hospital adopts minimally invasive interventional therapy for infants and children with large hemangiomas, which is to inject vascular sclerosing agent and embolic agent into the blood supply artery of hemangiomas under the guidance of DSA by intubation of femoral artery to make the hemangiomas subside under the dual effects of sclerosis and embolization. This minimally invasive interventional therapy is characterized by significant curative effect, small trauma, fast recovery and generally no scar, which brings hope to children with hemangioma.