[Experience of a multidisciplinary team in the management of superficial venous malformations: 99 cases].
BACKGROUND
Vascular malformations are heterogenous angiodysplasias.


OBJECTIVE
The aim of this work is to study the epidemiological and clinical features of venous malformations (VM) as well as their multidisciplinary management.


METHODS
It is a retrospective study of patients having simple VM, seen at the multidisciplinary consultation of angiodysplasias of our hospital, over a 10 year period.


RESULTS
This study included 99 patients having VM. A female predominance was noticed. Average age was 18.5 years. VM had mainly cephalic location. All VM were treated with percutaneous sclerotherapy. Aesthetic results were excellent in the cases of small VM size.


CONCLUSIONS
VM are most frequent in cephalic region and cause aesthetic and functional handicaps. Percutaneous sclerotherapy is the treatment of choice for such a venous malformations, especially for small VM. VM are anomalies which can have serious complications. Their management has to be multidisciplinary in order to better precise the diagnosis and to take the adequate therapeutic decision.
Sebai
Nadia Ezzine
NE
Service de Dermatologie, Comité multidisciplinaire des angiodysplasies, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisie.
Badri
Talel
T
Rajhi
Hatem
H
Khaled
Aida
A
Sioud
Asma
A
Zitouni
Karima
K
Hamza
Radhi
R
Mnif
Nejla
N
Kamoun
Mohamed Ridha
MR
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015911:Sclerotherapy; D055815:Young Adult