Research progresses of clinical and imaging evaluation on efficacy of sclerotherapy for venous malformations / 中国介入影像与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Venous malformation(VM)is the most common congenital vascular malformation.Clinical symptoms of VM,including pain,swelling,activity limitation and bleeding,mainly depend on the extent and location of VM.The treatment methods of VM included sclerotherapy,surgery and laser therapy,and sclerotherapy was regarded as the first-line plan.Up till now,no unified method or standard had been established for evaluating the efficacy of sclerotherapy for VM.The research progresses of clinical and imaging evaluation on efficacy of sclerotherapy for VM were reviewed in this article.