Sclerotherapy for arteriovenous malformations has to be performed under general anaesthesia because of the pain during injection and the need of careful monitoring. Two cases with arteriovenous malformations of the face regions are presented in whom percutaneous sclerotherapy was performed under local anaesthesia in the outpatient clinic. The sessions were uneventful and there was a visible dec...

Sixteen patients with persistent (n = 11) or recurrent (n = 5) variceal bleeding after injection sclerotherapy and balloon tamponade were treated with an intravenous infusion of somatostatin 250 micrograms/h. Somatostatin infusion successfully controlled the bleeding in 15 of the 16 patients but one rebled after 72 h of treatment. In one patient with poor liver function (Child's C) bleeding was...

INTRODUCTION Nonsurgical treatments, such as sclerotherapy have been attempted for head and neck lymphagiomas. Of the available sclerosing agents, picibanil has shown satisfactory short-term treatment results in many studies, but no study has presented long-term treatment results. Accordingly, in the present study, the authors retrospectively reviewed the long-term treatment results of picibani...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To describe a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of airway vascular malformations (venous or lymphatic) with direct suspension rigid laryngoscopy and direct puncture transmucosal bleomycin sclerotherapy injected under road-mapping fluoroscopic monitoring, supplemented by Dyna-computed tomography utilization. STUDY DESIGN Case series. METHODS We performed a ret...

The aim of this study was to compare the results of high ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein (GSV) trunk combined with foam sclerotherapy with conventional surgery for the treatment of superficial venous varicosities of the lower extremity. One hundred and thirty eight patients with primary or secondary superficial venous varicosities of the lower extremity were included. 60 unde...

With the evolution of minimally invasive approaches in medicine, phenol has regained its popularity for the sclerotherapy of testicular hydroceles. Together with reported efficiency and safety of 2.5% phenol in the literature, the recently proved safety of 3% phenol in esophageal variceal sclerotherapy has led us to perform a prospective study to lessen the number of sessions. Sclerotherapy wit...

PURPOSE To evaluate the treatment of symptomatic pelvic lymphoceles (SPL) after performing radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) and pelvic lymphadenectomy (PLA) simultaneously. MATERIAL AND METHODS We analyzed, in a retrospective study, 250 patients who underwent RRP with PLA simultaneously. Only patients with SPL were treated using different non- and invasive procedures such as percutaneou...

AIM This study is a prospective randomised controlled trial comparing sapheno-femoral ligation, great saphenous stripping and multiple avulsions with sapheno-femoral ligation and ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy to the saphenous vein. Primary end points were patient recovery period and quality of life and secondary end points frequency of complications on the two arms of the trial and the c...

PURPOSE To evaluate the success rates of sclerotherapy of the tunica vaginalis with alcohol for the treatment of hydroceles and/or spermatoceles, as well as, evaluation of pain, formation of hematomas, infection and its effects in spermatogenesis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 69 patients, with offsprings and diagnosis of hydrocele and/or spermatocele, were treated during the period from A...

BACKGROUND Use of endoscopic therapies for esophageal varices has resulted in increased prevalence of fundal varices and severe portal hypertensive gastropathy. This study was meant to compare the effect of band ligation and sclerotherapy on development of fundal varices and portal hypertensive gastropathy. METHODS Patients with esophageal varices presenting in the endoscopy unit of Shiakh Za...