title: [Diagnosis and surgery for intramuscular hemangioma of skeletal muscle].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore effects of color Doppler ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosis intramuscular hemangioma of skeletal muscle.
  
  
  METHODS
  From December 2000 to January 2013, 54 patients treated by operation confirmed as intramuscular hemangioma of skeletal muscle by pathology postoperatively, there were 19 males and 35 females aged from 11 to 59 years old (averaged 33.6); the courses of disease ranged from 2.5 to 15 years with an average of 5.2 years. Thirty-eight patients were checked by color Doppler ultrasound, and 14 patients were inspected by MRI. All patients were treated by operation. Postoperative operative time, blood loss in operation, and complications and pathology postoperatively were observed, and IMH clinical effective evaluating standard were used to evaluate clinical outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-three patients were followed up from 7 to 49 months with an average of 28.4 months. Operative time was (53 to 187) min with average of 76.3 min, blood loss was (70 to 350) ml with an average of 223.6 ml. No infections and death occurred. Thirty-five patients were diagnosed by color Doppler ultrasound and 13 patients were confirmed by MRI. Twenty patients were capillary type, 22 patients were spongy vascular type and 12 patients were mixed type according to Brown pathological type. In accordance with IMH clinical effective evaluating standard, 29 cases obtained excellent results, 8 moderate and 4 dissatisfaction and 2 poor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Color doppler ultrasound and MRI get a high rate diagnosing patients with intramuscular hemangioma and have an significant valuable in clinical application, and surgical operation which has advantages of relieve symptoms obviously, improve life quality and reduce recurrence rate, could receive good curative effect.
authors: Long
authors: L
authors: Tang
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Yang
authors: Biao
authors: B
authors: Yin
authors: Le
authors: L
authors: Wang
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Zhang
authors: Qiang
authors: Q
authors: Ding
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color