2017, Number 3
Cutaneous hemangiomas in children, registered in Villa Clara from 2012 to 2015
Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 485-494
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: hemangiomas are the most common cutaneous tumor in the childhood. They are classified among the congenital vascular anomalies.Objective: to identify the clinic-epidemiological behavior and therapeutic outcomes of the hemangiomas attended in the Infantile Hospital "Jose Luis Miranda", of Santa Clara, Villa Clara, in the period 2012-2015.
Materials and Methods: the bibliographic method and techniques of information visualization and representation were used. The study classifies as retrospective, descriptive of longitudinal type. The universe was composed by all the children with cutaneous hemangiomas attended at the Infantile Hospital "José Luis Miranda", of Villa Clara. The analyzed variables were: age, kind of lesion, location, complications, conditions by sex, race, and family antecedents and also the prescribed treatment and evolution.
Results: the conditions were determined by the children´s race, age, sex and family antecedents. Lesions were studied according to their kind and complications. The behavior of the cutaneous hemangiomas in childhood registered in Villa Clara between 2012 and 2015 agree with the criteria described by several specialists and researchers of this condition.
Conclusions: it was corroborated that the patients more regularly affected were the female, white ones, aged less than a year. Lesions were located more frequently on the face, the scalp and the trunk. The most effective treatments were surgery, electro-desiccation and local and systemic steroids.
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