Treatment of hemangiomas

When hearing about hemangioma, many people think it is a very scary disease. In fact, it is caused by vascular malformation and is a benign tumor that does not pose a threat to the patient's life. However, because hemangiomas often occur in children or newborns, parents should not ignore this disease. So, what are the treatments for hemangiomas?

Traditional treatments for hemangiomas are hormone therapy or interferon therapy. Both of these treatments have certain side effects on the patient's body and are therefore not suitable for children. However, there are already many treatments for hemangiomas. The details are as follows:

1. Hormone therapy

Glucocorticoids have a definite therapeutic effect on infantile hemangiomas. The mechanism is that rapidly growing hemangiomas contain higher levels of estradiol receptors, which can promote the formation and development of hemangiomas. Hormones can competitively bind to the estradiol receptors in hemangiomas, thereby inhibiting the proliferation of hemangiomas. When using it, please pay attention to control the usage time to about half a year.

2. Injection therapy

It refers to the injection of sclerosing agents into the tumor. Commonly used drugs include 5% sodium morrhuate, and glucocorticoids, etc., which have the risk of causing local skin necrosis, infection, and scar formation.

3. Radiation therapy

Radiotherapy, also known as radionuclide therapy, currently commonly used are 32P, 90Sr, X-rays, 60cobalt, etc., because it has high requirements for the reasonable arrangement of irradiation dose and time, and has a great impact on the bone development of infants, and increases the risk of cataracts and cancer, it is rarely used in clinical practice.

4. Laser treatment

Currently, the commonly used lasers for treating infantile hemangiomas include pulsed dye laser, YAG laser, photodynamic therapy and intense pulsed light system. Because the penetration depth of laser is limited and cannot damage the full layer of tissue of hemangioma, laser treatment is limited to treating early, superficial and small hemangiomas.

5. Cryotherapy

Commonly used cryogens include liquid nitrogen, nitric oxide, dry ice, hyperbaric oxygen cryotherapy, and chlorinated paraffin, which are mostly used to treat superficial hemangiomas of the trunk and limbs. They have risks such as incomplete treatment, local scar formation, and color changes.

This article has clearly introduced the specific treatments for hemangioma. If you find symptoms similar to hemangioma, please go to the hospital for diagnosis in time. Once diagnosed, you can choose the above-mentioned treatment methods according to your disease condition to get rid of the trouble of hemangioma as soon as possible.