A 13-year-old girl had a venous malformation at her abdductor pollicis longus muscle of right forearm, with clinical presentation of local swelling, tenderness and inability to abduct her thumb. Under sonographic guidance, we treated this lesion with percutaneous intralesional ethanol injection. Her symptoms soon resolved after the treatment. In a follow-up period of 8 months, persistently decr...

Fifty patients with malignant pleural effusion were randomized to receive one or two doses of tetracycline sclerotherapy. We found that a single sclerotherapy treatment with tetracycline at a dose of 20 mg/kg was as effective as two sclerotherapy treatments and provided symptomatic relief in 46 of the 50 patients.

INTRODUCTION Venous malformations are the most frequent vascular malformation. Deep venous malformations are located in subcutaneous tissue or in the muscles. Percutaneous sclerotherapy is the treatment of choice, and the use of ethanol at low doses has not yet been described. OBJECTIVE To analyze the results of treating Deep venous malformations patients with low doses of ethanol. METHODS ...

ENDOSCOPIC sclerotherapy as the initial form of therapy for bleeding esophageal varices is considered to be the treatment of choice in many centers. While bleeding is usually effectively controlled, \,2 the long-term prognosis for such patients remains poor3 ,4 since progressive hepatic deterioration often precipitated by the bleeding episode frequently leads to an early death. In an attempt to...

Sclerotherapy is an increasingly popular treatment modality for patients with chronic venous insufficiency and varicose veins. Potential complications of foam sclerotherapy include cerebrovascular accidents and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs). We report the case of a 55-year-old woman who had a TIA shortly after undergoing foam sclerotherapy. She had presented for treatment with no confirmed ...

Burroughs, A.K., Hamilton, G. Phillips, A., Mezzanotte, G., Mclntyre, N. and Hobbs, K.E.F. (1989) A comparison of sclerotherapy with staple transection of the esophagus for the emergency control of bleeding from esophagus varices. The New England Journal of Medicine; 321:857-862 We compared two procedures for the emergency treatment of bleeding esophageal varices in patients who did not respond...

BACKGROUND Esophageal variceal banding may be less likely to cause bacteremia than sclerotherapy. The existing data about the frequency of bacteremia after esophageal variceal banding are conflicting, and few studies include both banding and sclerotherapy. AIMS We conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare the frequency of bacteremia after esophageal variceal banding and s...