What is a hemangioma?

Hemangioma is a common vascular disease involving almost all systems of the body. Patients with hemangioma are encountered in many departments in hospitals, not only in plastic surgery, which has a large number and high percentage of visits, but even in dentistry, general surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology and dermatology. The incidence is generally considered to be about 1%, and the sites of occurrence are mostly found in the skin and subcutaneous tissues, followed by the oral mucosa and muscles, and again in the liver, bones, spleen and nervous system, and occasionally in the digestive tract, kidney and other tissues. If the nature of hemangioma can be correctly judged and the correct indications can be chosen according to the type and stage, most of the hemangiomas can be effectively treated. However, in a few cases, because the lesions are too large and deep, or involve important organs and organs, serious complications or serious abnormalities in hemodynamics may occur, and conventional treatment is not only difficult to be effective, but also life-threatening. The potential for life-threatening conditions is not only difficult to treat conventionally, but also life-threatening. However, what are the common features of these diseases, and are there any commonalities and specificities in their treatment? As a general non-medical population, how to properly understand hemangioma and how to better cooperate with medical professionals in treating this disease is a common concern for many patients and their families. At present, the main ways for patients or people around them to learn about this disease include buying books from bookstores, searching the Internet and consulting experts, but all of these aspects have their obvious shortcomings. Generally, medical books are only available in the larger regular bookstores, but even the largest bookstore in Guangzhou (Tianhe Book Center) has few books on hemangioma, all of which are contained in a few general plastic surgery books without exception. For example, the book “Plastic Surgery Resident’s Manual” contains only four pages of text about hemangioma, giving the reader the impression that the book was rushed through. With the popularity of the Internet, the number of ways for the public to access the Internet has increased greatly. The Internet, because of its rich content, has to some extent improved patients’ knowledge of the occurrence, treatment and prognosis of such diseases, but there are also serious shortcomings: 1. High repetitiveness of content. The contents of many web pages are reproduced from each other and are identical; 2. The authority is not high. Network resources are mixed, and there is a large amount of non-authoritative medical information; 3. Some of the content is highly specialized; network resources in many cases will appear in the medical database of the literature, the content of the industry can only understand, for the general public is obscure and difficult to understand. Another way is expert consultation, which has failed to be popular in many regions and populations and is of little use. Moreover, all three approaches have a common drawback, that is, they stand in opposition to the general public and teach the classification, etiology, treatment and prognosis of hemangioma, etc., and summarize the content from a professional point of view, so that the public will not follow their own questions to find answers when they are involved in these knowledge, but match their own questions with the existing and established answers. The different classifications, locations, and treatments of hemangiomas have caused patients and their families to be unaware of the characteristics of their disease even after surgery, which has hindered the communication and awareness of hemangiomas, a very common disease in plastic surgery, among the general population.