Treatment of hemangiomas in adults

For patients with hemangioma, they are very worried that the hemangioma will worsen, so patients must go to the hospital for diagnosis in time. So do adult hemangiomas need treatment? What are the treatments for adult hemangiomas? Let's have a simple understanding of this issue. I hope the following points will be helpful to everyone!

1. Do adult hemangiomas need treatment?

The harm of hemangioma in adults cannot be ignored. Most of them are caused by not receiving timely treatment when they were children. Some of them are acquired diseases, but the probability is lower. It is recommended that patients seek treatment as soon as possible to prevent adult hemangiomas from continuing to grow and harming their physical and mental health.

2. What are the harms of hemangioma in adults?

Honeycomb hemangioma in adults is not easy to disappear on its own and will always grow indefinitely. However, some patients have already passed puberty and the growth rate is slow. The patients themselves are unaware that the hemangioma is growing. The honeycomb pattern affects the appearance of the head and face and causes deformity. In particular, honeycomb hemangioma in the submandibular gland is prone to complications such as facial paralysis.

Honeycomb hemangioma can cause space-occupying mass, damage nerves, tendons, other tissues and organs, and cause complications such as pain and deformity. For example, if it grows in places like the neck, it will cause space-occupying effect on breathing.

Honeycomb hemangioma in the limbs causes swelling and deformity of the affected side, and even damages the joints, resulting in functional problems and other acquired disabilities.

Honeycomb hemangioma can cause muscle atrophy in the limbs, making the affected side smaller than the normal body.

Racemose hemangiomas may cause pain because the subcutaneous nerves may be entangled with the hemangiomas, and the hemangiomas stretch the nerves during heartbeats. Racemose hemangioma can invade the skin and cause local ulcers, which often bleed and become infected, and the ulcers do not heal for a long time. Racemose hemangioma grows in the limbs and causes deformity, especially in the surgical site, which seriously affects the patient's normal study and daily life.

3. What is the best way to treat hemangioma in adults?

3.1. For surgical treatment, the tumor can be completely removed if it is localized, and partially removed if it is widespread.

3.2, Microwave heating medium frequency treatment, mainly used in honeycomb type.

3.3. Tumor radiotherapy is used for infantile capillary hemangioma and superficial honeycomb hemangioma.

3.4. Scleroderma treatment is used for honeycomb hemangioma.

3.5. Liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is used for bayberry wine-like and honeycomb-like hemangiomas.

3.6. Hormone therapy for infantile hemangioma.

3.7. Intravascular obstruction, used for racemose and extra-large honeycomb hemangiomas.

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