One of the treatment options for patients is excising the malformation from the skin. In this video, Dr. Gwozdz discusses other treatment options for venous malformations.
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So, once the necessary investigations are performed and the vascular specialist has a better idea of what's communicating with the venous malformation and what are the other tissues or structures that are nearby, can make a decision about how to treat it, and this involves really either excising the venous malformation, so making a cut in the skin where that malformation is, and then removing the malformation in its entirety by tying off the blood vessels that are feeding that actual malformation. Alternatively, if the malformation is low-flow and amenable to injection, you may be able to inject foam sclerotherapy, which has an effect of closing off that abnormality, reducing the flow into it, and therefore it should shrink in size. you
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