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The treatment of facial heamangioma by percutaneous injections of sodium tetradecyl sulfate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Y. Anavi
Affiliation:
Department of oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
G. Har-El*
Affiliation:
Department of oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
S. Mintz
Affiliation:
Department of oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, and the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
*
Gady Har-El, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, Long Island College Hospital 340 Henry Street, Brooklyn NY 11201U.S.A.

Summary

SotradecolR—sodium tetradecyl sulfate—is a selerosing agent which has been used for years in the treatment of varicose veins, haemorrhoids and haemangiomata. Two cases of large haemangioma of the cheek are presented. Becuase surgical treatment posed many difficulties we decided to treat with sodium tetradecylsulfate. Treatment was successful.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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