BACKGROUND: Vascular malformations are heterogenous angiodysplasias. AIM: The aim of this work is to study the epidemiological and clinical features of venous malformations (VM) as well as their multidisciplinary management. METHODS: It is a retrospective study of patients having simple VM, seen at the multidisciplinary consultation of angiodysplasias of our hospital, over a 10 year period. RESULTS: This study included 99 patients having VM. A female predominance was noticed. Average age was 18.5 years. VM had mainly cephalic location. All VM were treated with percutaneous sclerotherapy. Aesthetic results were excellent in the cases of small VM size. CONCLUSION: VM are most frequent in cephalic region and cause aesthetic and functional handicaps. Percutaneous sclerotherapy is the treatment of choice for such a venous malformations, especially for small VM. VM are anomalies which can have serious complications. Their management has to be multidisciplinary in order to better precise the diagnosis and to take the adequate therapeutic decision.
Arteriovenous Malformations/epidemiology , Arteriovenous Malformations/therapy , Patient Care Team , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Sclerotherapy , Young Adult
BACKGROUND: Bullosis diabeticorum is a rare characteristic complication of diabetes mellitus; it affects 0.5% of diabetics. Bullosis diabeticorum is a manifestation of complicate and longstanding diabetes mellitus. THE AIM: of our study was to describe particularities of diabetes in patients suffering of this disease. METHODS: We have led a retrospective study covering a 5 year-period (January 2001 - December 2007) in the dermatology department of the Charles Nicolle's hospital in Tunisia. We selected for this study all cases of bullosis diabeticorum. RESULTS: During the studied period, 10 cases have been collected. They were in all cases about complicate and long-standing diabetes. Bullosis diabeticorum has a favourable outcome in all cases with symptomatic treatment. CONCLUSION: The different cases of bullosis diabeticorum reported in our series were associated to complicate diabetes mellitus what lets suggest that vascular deteriorations led to cutaneous fragility responsible for the skin cleavage.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/complications , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications , Foot Dermatoses/etiology , Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous/etiology , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies
