Vascular tumors are complex pathologies - clinical manifestations are heterogeneous, and multidisciplinary competences are needed to reach a correct diagnosis and plan optimal treatment. It is therefore essential to introduce a clear classification of hemangiomas and vascular malformations and this is admirably presented in this book. The authors go on to describe diagnostic imaging and therapeutic procedures for both types of disorder. Laser, interventional radiological and surgical techniques are further explained according to the type of vascular tumor and its localization. This well-crafted volume is addressed to all professionals who deal with vascular tumors in their daily clinical practice and need up-to-date references for these pathologies.
Zusammenfassung
R. Mattassi The field of congenital vascular malformations and the unfortunate patients that s- fer from them will welcome this truly multidisciplinary international contribution to the study and treatment of a group of diseases that is gradually becoming better known, but not better liked, by the majority of our colleagues. Without question, the power of the internet with its access to world-wide medical literature, and the publication of c- plete issues of medical journals devoted to the subject of vascular malformations, have contributed to expanding knowledge and eliciting curiosity amongst physicians who some decades ago would not have wanted to deal with unusual, poorly understood and challenging diseases. A group of authors from ten different countries, experts in their respective medical and surgical specialties, who have felt the pain of the many patients afflicted with v- cular malformations, have made a combined effort to increase and update the gr- ing knowledge of these diseases. The tremendous technological advances in non - vasive as well as invasive diagnostic techniques, imaging, genetics, and therapeutic surgical and endovascular procedures, have given us new weapons with which to treat and improve the lives of many desperate patients afflicted by diseases that some years ago produced only sorrow, compassion and despair in their families and in the rare physicians who dared to tackle their problems.
Inhalt
Angiogenesis.- Historical Background.- Hemangiomas.- Hemangiomas of Infancy: Epidemiology.- Classification of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors.- Diagnosis of Hemangiomas.- Visceral Hemangiomas.- Principles of Therapy of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors of the Newborns and Infants.- Medical Treatment of Hemangiomas.- Laser Therapy of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors of Newborns and Infants.- Surgery of Hemangiomas.- Facial Hemangiomas.- Anogenital Hemangiomas.- Vascular Malformations.- Genetic Aspects of Vascular Malformations.- Epidemiology of Vascular Malformations.- Classification of Vascular Malformations.- Non Invasive Diagnostics of Congenital Vascular Malformations.- Nuclear Medicine in Diagnostics of Vascular Malformations.- Invasive Diagnostics of Congenital Vascular Malformations.- Principles of Treatment of Vascular Malformations.- Interventional Therapy in Arteriovenous Congenital Malformations.- Diagnosis and Management of Soft Tissue Vascular Malformations with Ethanol.- Sclerotherapy in Vascular Malformations.- Laser Therapy of Vascular Malformations.- The Combined Treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations.- Multidisciplinary Surgical Treatment of Vascular Malformations.- Treatment of Arterial Malformations.- Treatment of Arteriovenous Malformations.- Treatment of Venous Malformations.- Treatment of Lymphatic Malformations.- Treatment of Vascular Malformations in Newborns and Infants.- Treatment Problems According to Specific Localizations.- Introductory Remarks.- Management of Head and Neck Vascular Malformations: an Overview.- Surgical Treatment of Vascular Malformations in the Hand.- Management of Vascular Malformations in the Thorax Wall.- Joint Involvement in Patients with Vascular Malformations. Destructive Angiodysplastic Arthritis.- Surgical Approach to Congenital Vascular Malformations (CVM) in the Foot.- Diagnosis and Management of Vascular Malformations of Bone.- The Role of Syndromes.- Conclusions.- Conclusions.