Better quality of life after foam sclerosis of a vascular malformation following multiple surgery

Summary

Vascular malformations present a therapeutic challenge due to their rarity and heterogeneous clinical presentation. In the present case report the authors discuss a 46-year-old female patient who had undergone a number of operations for an extensive and very painful venous malformation. Eventually she was successfully treated by several doses of a foam sclerosing agent.

This achieved remarkably rapid, long-term pain reduction and improved her quality of life. The case demonstrates that foam sclero-therapy is a satisfactory treatment option with few adverse effects for anatomically unclear malformations that can no longer be treated surgically.

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Keywords

Vascular malformation - foam sclerosis - quality of life

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