Embolo/sclerotherapy for the treatment of hand arteriovenous malformations: a single-center retrospective cohort experience.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To retrospectively report our preliminary experience of treating hand arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) with embolo/sclerotherapy.

Materials and methods

Retrospectively review the demographics, treatment detail, outcome data, and complications of 13 consecutive patients with hand AVMs from January 2018 to December 2021. We embolize the dominant outflow vein with elastic coils and then use absolute ethanol or polidocanol for intravascular sclerotherapy and bleomycin for interstitial sclerotherapy.

Results

Yakes type II presents in four lesions, type IIIa in six, and type IIIb in three. A total of 29 treatment episodes were conducted for the 13 patients (1 episode for 3 patients, 2 for 4 patients, and 3 for 6 patients; the repeated treatment rate was 76.9%). Th

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10312000 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature