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Treatment of hemangioma on children's heads and faces with fluid nitrogen.

Author(s) : YANG M., YANG H., WANG Y.

Summary

The frozen treatment with fluid nitrogen was safe and effective to children with hemangioma on the faces and heads. And the way was simple to operate and popularize. It is a effective way to treat the small hemagioma at present. Hemangioma is a kind of disease rarely seen in children; cutaneous hemangioma is the benign tumour originated from skin blood vessel and is frequently seen in the skin of head and neck, unusually but can also occur in mucous membranes, liver, brain and muscle. Hemangioma can be observed right at birth or soon after birth. It grows quickly during infancy but stops growing gradually with age sometimes can even fade away. Hemangioma of skin consists of three types: naevus flammeus, strawberry nevus and cavernous hemangioma. In the present study, 40 cases of strawberry nevus and 10 cases of cavernous hemangioma were treated by frozen therapy with fluid nitrogen.

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Pages: ICR07-C1-160

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  • Original title: Treatment of hemangioma on children's heads and faces with fluid nitrogen.
  • Record ID : 2008-0953
  • Languages: English
  • Source: ICR 2007. Refrigeration Creates the Future. Proceedings of the 22nd IIR International Congress of Refrigeration.
  • Publication date: 2007/08/21

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