Treatment of Congenital Capillary Hemangioma: Review of 30 Cases in Nasiriyah (2013-2018)

Abstract

The study is designed to identify the peak age of incidence of hemangioma and the most common site of involvement, presentation, different types, types of surgical procedures and the perioperative complications as well as the variation of sizes in hemangiomas. A retrospective study was done on a sample size of (30) persons. They were selected from Al_Hussein teaching hospital in Nasiriyah between (2013-2018) which included 13 males and 17 females starting from age of less than 6 months til the age of more than 3 years. The peak incidence was in those aged more than 6 months and up to three years (66%) .The most common place involved being the trunk ( 50% ), then the lower limb ( 16% ), upper limb ( 16% ), the the face and neck ( 16% ). The most common presentation was increment in size in 50% of patients, recurrent ulceration in 20% and recurrent bleeding in 16% of patients. The patients in the study had three types: capillary hemangioma ( 66% ), cavernous hemangioma ( 20% ) and combined hemangioma (14% ). The size of hemangioma varied from smaller than 5 cm (33%),5-10 cm (33%) and larger than 10 cm (33%).