OBJECTIVE To present our experience in treating vascular malformations in the oral cavity solely by injecting ethanol into the lesions. MATERIAL AND METHODS We treated 26 patients (12 men and 14 women) with oral malformations. The diagnosis was based on clinical findings (n=26), magnetic resonance imaging studies (n=19), angiography findings (n=5), and direct puncture venography (n=2). To ach...

BACKGROUND To compare the efficacy and treatment session numbers of acetic acid to that of ethanol sclerotherapy for the treatment of simple renal cysts. Between February 2004 and June 2013, 86 patients with simple renal cysts underwent percutaneous aspiration and injection of 50 %-acetic-acid (42 cysts) and 95 %-ethanol (44 cysts). The patient demographics, volume reduction rate, number of tre...

We read with great interest the article entitled “Effectiveness of single-session ultrasound-guided percutaneous ethanol sclerotherapy in simple breast cysts” by Ozgen (1), which has been recently published in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. However, we would like to address some limitations. First, simple breast cysts do not need any follow-up, as they do not show malignant transforma...

The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Variceal Sclerotherapy Group. (1991) Prophylactic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices in men with alcoholic liver disease. The New England Journal of Medicine; 324: 1779-1784. Background. Sclerotherapy is an effective treatment for bleeding esophageal varices in patients with alcoholic liver disease. It has also been suggested that sclerotherapy might be effect...