Ranieri, M. and Wohlgemuth, W. and Mueller-Wille, R. and Prantl, L. and Kehrer, A. and Geis, S. and Klein, S. and Lamby, P. and Schiltz, D. and Uller, W. and Aung, T. and Dolderer, J. H. (2017) Vascular malformations of upper and lower extremity - from radiological interventional therapy to surgical soft tissue reconstruction - an interdisciplinary treatment. CLINICAL HEMORHEOLOGY AND MICROCIRCULATION, 67 (3-4). pp. 355-372. ISSN 1386-0291, 1875-8622
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This article presents our experience in managing peripheral vascular malformations of upper and lower extremities over a 4-year period in a series of 46 patients of the Department of Plastic Surgery treated in the Interdisciplinary Center of Vascular Anomalies (ICVA) at the University of Regensburg. The patients presented vascular malformations of upper and lower extremity and were selected from our prospective vascular anomalies file archive from 2012 to 2016. During this period in the ICVA at University of Regensburg were performed more than 1400 radiological interventional treatments in patients with vascular malformations. The purpose of this retrospective study was to review combined embolotherapy, sclerotherapy (embolo/sclerotherapy), and surgical procedures (surgical excision and soft tissue reconstruction) to manage vascular malformations. Treatments were principally induced to reduce pain, daily physical limitations, social discomfort and recover tegument continuity after ulceration. The 46 patients were first examined with noninvasive radiological procedures. After diagnosis was posed, embolo/sclerotherapy, surgical procedures and clinically as well as radiological follow-ups were coordinated and established by the multidisciplinary team. All vascular malformations were categorized according to the classification approved at the April 2014 General Assembly of International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) in Melbourne, Australia. Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were further classified following the Cho-Do and Schobinger classification. Embolo/sclerotherapy shows to be the most appropriate procedure in vascular malformations treatment. Nevertheless was found that in case of complications or lack of improvement as well as to improve functional or aesthetical results, a following partial or complete surgical excision and immediate soft tissue reconstruction seems to be the gold-standard treatment. In addition, the precise clinical and radiological diagnosis as well as an intensive postoperative patient care have a significant positive influence on the clinical outcome and patient satisfaction while decreasing morbidity and recurrence during early and late follow-up. Vascular malformations require a multidisciplinary approach and individual treatment after complex excision and indispensable reconstruction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | VENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ADVANCED MANAGEMENT; SCLEROSING AGENT; ANOMALIES; ISSUES; Vascular malformations; vascular malformations surgical therapy; vascular malformations soft tissue reconstruction; interdisciplinary treatment vascular malformations |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Chirurgie Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Röntgendiagnostik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2019 11:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/598 |
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