Early excision of nasal hemangiomas: the L-approach.
The presence of a nasal hemangioma may have a severe negative effect on the personality of a child. Early surgery in the involution phase has proved to be beneficial in this respect. The treatment of a consecutive series of nine patients who had surgery shortly after they were first seen for consultation is discussed. An extended rhinotomy (L-approach) was used in four of these patients. The results were uniformly good.
van der Meulen
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Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam, Plastische en Reconstructieve Chirurgie, The Netherlands.
Gilbert
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Roddi
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors