[Clinical treatment of venous malformations with retained copper needles].
OBJECTIVE; To evaluate a technique with retained copper needles for the treatment of venous malformations.


METHODS
With 78 venous malformation cases, there were three methods were applied for the treatment respectively, including copper needles in the lesion only, vascular ligation with the copper needles in the lesion, and electrical puncture with the copper needles in the lesion.


RESULTS
There were totally 96% effective rate achieved in this clinical data.


CONCLUSIONS
The retained copper needles technique may be a simple and effective method for the treatment of venous, malformations resulting in vessel denaturation, fibrosis and disappearance of structure.
Yin
Guo-Qian
GQ
Department of Plastic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of GuangXi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China. yingq61@163.com
Chen
Shi-Hai
SH
Su
Cheng-Wu
CW
Liao
Ming-De
MD
Peng
Fu-Ren
FR
Liu
Qing-Feng
QF
Wei
Qiang
Q
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009339:Needles; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult