There are two major types of vascular birthmarks, hemangiomas, those demonstrating endothelial hyperplasia, and malformation, those with normal endothelial turnover. Venous malformations have previously been treated by surgical excision, where possible. Although not a panacea for all such tumors, the use of sclerosing agents is decidedly preferable in some cases to extirpation with a scapel. The method involves the direct injection of absolute alcohol into the lesion on the fluoroscopic guide. The effect of treatment is satisfactory and there appears tobe no long term complication. We report 2 cases of surgically irresectable and deep-seated venous malformation which were treated sclerotherapy using ethanol.
Ethanol ; Hemangioma ; Hyperplasia ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy*

OBJECTIVETo compare the effect of Sodium Morrhuate on ECV-304 between its lipo- and normal preparation.

METHODSThe ECV-304 cell line was supplemented with Sodium Morrhuate and lipo-Sodium Morrhuate in order, and the result on morphology (microscope, Giemsa Staining and electron microscope), cell activity (MTT), and flow cytometer between the two preparation were compared.

RESULTSIn normal preparation group, cell's edema occurred. Chromatin was like catkins. Tumefaction and degeneration of mitochondrion and endoplasmic reticulum appeared. In lipo-Sodium Morrhuate group, the membrane was creased and processus appeared. Chromatin aggregates to the membrane of nucleus was like crescent, and then broken. The apoptotic body was formed. MTT changes showed that the curve of the normal preparation group was steep and the change time was short relatively, which cues the vital cells decreased sharply. The curve of lipo-Sodium Morrhuate group was gentle and the change time was long relatively, which cues the vital cells decreased slowly. The flow cytometer showed that typical apoptosis peak appeared.

CONCLUSIONThe normal preparation group shows an acute toxic effect on ECV-304 cell line, which result in a necrosis course, while lipo-Sodium Morrhuate shows a gradual releasing process, which may indicate a apoptosis course.

The patients with prolonged air leak after lung resection surgery were generally treated by pleurodesis with sclerosing agents such as talc, tetracyclin, doxycyclin, bleomycin, vibramycin, and OK432. However, for the case like dead space resulted by incomplete reexpansion of the remaining lung, chemical pleurodesis has shown to be not as effective as expected. If the patients keep the chest tube for long period of time, the risk of thoracic empyema would increase. Most thoracic surgeons have experienced prolonged airleak which developed after lung resection. Pleurodesis with autoblood was reported as an effective method in treatment of patients with prolonged airleak. The mechanism of blood pleurodesis may be direct obliteration of BPF and reduction of dead space by clot. Therefore we successfully treated the two patients with prolonged airleak using the autoblood plus OK432 or vibramycin.
Bleomycin ; Chest Tubes ; Doxycycline ; Empyema, Pleural ; Humans ; Lung ; Picibanil ; Pleurodesis* ; Pneumothorax ; Sclerosing Solutions* ; Talc

Noncommunicating hydrocele in adult is the most frequently encountered mass of the scrotum. Traditionally surgery had been considered as the most effective method of treatment. Sclerotherapy, however, may provide an alternative means of treatment for patients who are poor surgical or anesthetic risks and those who refuse surgery. In recent years, a number of sclerosing agents including tetracycline have been introduced, but those were found to produce various kinds of complications or frequent recurrences. Alcohol was also proved to have sclerosing effect by Bean who used it in the treatment of simple renal cysts with good results. This study was designed to determine the feasibility of sclerotherapy with alcohol for noncommunicating hydroceles. 95% or 75% sterile alcohol and tetracycline were injected into the spaces of tunica vaginalis of male rats to produce fibrous adhesion. At second week after injection, There was no significant difference in successful adhesion rates between alcohol injection group (71.9%) and tetracycline injection group(75%). 95% alcohol seemed more effective than 75% alcohol. There was no specific change or damage in the testicular parenchyme or surrounding scrotal wall. This result suggests the clinical applicability of alcohol in the management of noncommunicatinghydroceles.
Adult ; Animals ; Ethanol* ; Humans ; Male ; Rats* ; Recurrence ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy ; Scrotum ; Testis* ; Tetracycline

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of foam sclerotherapy, we compared the clinical data and results of foam sclerotherapy with conventional sclerotherapy. METHOD: Ninety-three cases of varicose veins were retrospectively reviewed; these were treated by sclerotherapy from January 2000 to September 2005 (women: 82 cases, men: 12 cases, mean age: 43.7 years old). The enrolled cases were divided into the conventional sclerotherapy (CS) group (n=53) and the foam sclerotherapy (FS) group (n=40) according to the applied technique. We assessed the results with the disappearance scoring scale (DSS) and the satisfaction scoring scale (SSS). RESULT: In DSS, complete disappearance was reported as 28.3% by physicians and 30.2% by the patients in CS group and as 47.5% and 52.5% in the FS group, respectively. On the SSS, a satisfaction score scale above 3 (4: Good, 5: Very good) was reported for 79.1% in the CS group and 90.0% in the FS group, retrospectively. The average amounts of sclerosants used were significantly lower in the FS group (1.2+/-0.4 vials) than in the CS group (2.1+/-0.5 vials)(P=0.001). Post injection complications were retrospectively observed in 16.1% of all the patients, in 20.7% of the CS group and in 10.0% of the FS group. CONCLUSION: Sclerotherapy is a very effective and sufficient treatment for telangiectases or reticular varicose veins. Especially, foam sclerotherapy is more effective than conventional liquid sclerotherapy for the clinical results and the patient satisfaction, and it shows a with lower incidence of complications.
Humans ; Incidence ; Lower Extremity* ; Male ; Patient Satisfaction ; Retrospective Studies ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy* ; Telangiectasis ; Varicose Veins*

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of foam sclerotherapy, we compared the clinical data and results of foam sclerotherapy with conventional sclerotherapy. METHOD: Ninety-three cases of varicose veins were retrospectively reviewed; these were treated by sclerotherapy from January 2000 to September 2005 (women: 82 cases, men: 12 cases, mean age: 43.7 years old). The enrolled cases were divided into the conventional sclerotherapy (CS) group (n=53) and the foam sclerotherapy (FS) group (n=40) according to the applied technique. We assessed the results with the disappearance scoring scale (DSS) and the satisfaction scoring scale (SSS). RESULT: In DSS, complete disappearance was reported as 28.3% by physicians and 30.2% by the patients in CS group and as 47.5% and 52.5% in the FS group, respectively. On the SSS, a satisfaction score scale above 3 (4: Good, 5: Very good) was reported for 79.1% in the CS group and 90.0% in the FS group, retrospectively. The average amounts of sclerosants used were significantly lower in the FS group (1.2+/-0.4 vials) than in the CS group (2.1+/-0.5 vials)(P=0.001). Post injection complications were retrospectively observed in 16.1% of all the patients, in 20.7% of the CS group and in 10.0% of the FS group. CONCLUSION: Sclerotherapy is a very effective and sufficient treatment for telangiectases or reticular varicose veins. Especially, foam sclerotherapy is more effective than conventional liquid sclerotherapy for the clinical results and the patient satisfaction, and it shows a with lower incidence of complications.
Humans ; Incidence ; Lower Extremity* ; Male ; Patient Satisfaction ; Retrospective Studies ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy* ; Telangiectasis ; Varicose Veins*

Treatment modalities of gastric variceal bleeding are endoscopic injection sclerotherapy, endoscopic variceal ligation, combined above two method, operation, TIPS, and percutaneous transhepatic embolization. Recently, Histoacryl was introduced as a new sclerosant of acute variceal bleeding failed by others. So, we studied 18 cases of acute gastric variceal bleeding uncontrolled by EIS using Ethanolamine oleate. Intravariceal injection of Histoacryl is considered as a safe and effective method for hemostasis of intractable acute gastric variceal bleeding uncontrolled by other sclerosants. But, it is important that endoscopist should be in harmony with assistant at injection of Histoacryl. And its shooting speed should be fast because of clogging within the catheter. It is necessary to do long term study for evaluation of eradication effect in acute gastric variceal bleeding.
Catheters ; Cyanoacrylates ; Enbucrilate ; Esophageal and Gastric Varices* ; Ethanolamine* ; Hemostasis ; Ligation ; Oleic Acid* ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy*

Injection of the tissue adhesive Histoacryl (N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate, enbucrilate) has been more effective than conventional sclerosants in the treatment of active upper G-I bleeding. Histoacryl is an effective sclerosant that is polymerized immediately after contact with blood, and has been used for the treatment of bleeding gastric and esophageal varices. We present here a case of infarction of the caudate lobe that developed after an injection of a Histoacryl -Lipiodol mixture for the hemostasis of duodenal ulcer bleeding.
Duodenal Ulcer* ; Enbucrilate* ; Esophageal and Gastric Varices ; Hemorrhage* ; Hemostasis ; Infarction* ; Liver* ; Polymers ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Tissue Adhesives

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In most cases of benign neck cysts, surgical excision has been considered the definite treatment. However, it is difficult to excise cysts completely in some cases. In view of this, non-surgical treatment for these lesions has been attempted with sclerosing agents. Some authors presented case reports on using OK-432 or 99% Alcohol sclerotherapy. In this study, we compared OK-432 and 99% Alcohol sclerotherapy with regards to effectiveness and complications associated in treating benign neck cyst. SUBJECTS AND METHOD: We retrospectively reviewed 29 patients who had undergone sclerotherapy with OK-432 or 99% Alcohol for benign neck cyst, such as ranula, lymphangioma, thyroglossal duct cyst and branchial cleft cyst. Information was gathered with respect to age, sex, number of injections, post-sclerotherapy side effects and outcome of treatments. RESULT: In the OK-432 sclerotherapy, 16 patients (69.6%) showed complete response, and 5 patients (20.7%) showed intermediate response. No response was seen in 2 patients (9.7%). In the 99% Alcohol sclerotherapy, 5 patients (83.3%) showed complete response, and 1 patient (16.7%) showed intermediate response. The side effects observed from intracystic injection therapy with OK-432 and 99% Alcohol were fever (55.2%) and localized pain (44.8%). In the OK-432 sclerotherapy, 18 patients (78.3%) had complications, In the 99% Alcohol, 3 patients (50%) had complications. However, these complications spontaneously disappeared after several days in all the cases. CONCLUSION: The results showed that OK-432 and 99% Alcohol injection is an effective and safe treatment for benign neck cyst. The effectiveness of OK-432 and 99% Alcohol injection is very similar.
Branchioma ; Fever ; Humans ; Lymphangioma ; Neck* ; Picibanil* ; Ranula ; Retrospective Studies ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy* ; Thyroglossal Cyst

Surgical excision has traditionally been the treatment of choice for benign non-thyroid cystic neck masses, including lymphatic malformation, ranula, branchial cleft cyst, thyroglossal duct cyst, and parathyroid cyst. However, there is a tendency toward recurrence after surgery, and surgery may be accompanied by complications, including nerve injuries, vascular injuries, and scar formation. Ultrasound-guided sclerotherapy using various agents has been challenged and successfully applied as an alternative treatment for benign non-thyroid cystic neck masses. This report reviews the available sclerosing agents and describes the applications of sclerotherapy to the treatment of benign cystic masses in the neck.
Branchioma ; Cicatrix ; Neck* ; Picibanil ; Ranula ; Recurrence ; Sclerosing Solutions ; Sclerotherapy* ; Thyroglossal Cyst ; Ultrasonography ; Vascular System Injuries