title: The treatment of tongue haemangioma by plasma knife surgery.
abstract: A seven-year-old girl presented with a 4 cm x 2 cm lesion of the tongue which was located at the posterior one-third in the midline. The lesion was excised by plasma knife surgery. No complication, such as bleeding, shortness of breath or infection, occurred after the treatment. Plasma knife surgery is an acceptable choice for selected benign lingual vascular malformations.
authors.affiliation: ENT Department, Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. ahkutluhan@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kutluhan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bozdemir
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ugras
mesh_terms: D017115:Catheter Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D014059:Tongue / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D054079:Vascular Malformations