经导管动脉栓塞治疗婴儿颌面部巨大血管瘤

Objective To evaluate the therapeutic effects and safety of transcatheter arterial em-bolization (TAE) in infantile huge hemangiomas. Methods From 2005 to 2007, 25 consecutive cases of huge hemangioma that aged 1- 9mon ( mean 3.7±1.34 mon) and weighed 4.3 to 8kg (mean 6.52 ±0.86 kg) were treated by TAE. The support artery of hemangioma was embolized by Bleomycin-lip-iodol emulsion (PLE) and Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) in succession. Results Twenty-five cases under-went 35 times of TAE (1-3 times per each case with a mean of 1.4 times). The average hospitalization was 3.2 days (range 2-5 d ). The effective rate was 100% (25/25). The average follow-up period was 10. 44 months (range 6-16 months) without relapse. No serious complications such as pulmonary em-bolism and cerebral embolism occurred. Conclusions The advantages of TAE in the treatment for huge hernangioma in infancy are safe , effective, less trauma, short hospitalization and good cosmetic out-come.

Transcatheter arterial embolization in the treatment of huge maxillofacial hemangioma in infants