Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Angiogenesis

      • Alice Agliano

      Pages 3-8

   3. Historical Background

      • Raul Mattassi

      Pages 9-13

3. Hemangiomas

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Hemangiomas of Infancy: Epidemiology

      • Maria Rosa Cordisco

      Pages 17-21

   3. Classification of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors

      • Hans Peter Berlien

      Pages 23-34

   4. Diagnosis of Hemangiomas

      • Juan Carlos López Gutiérrez

      Pages 35-37

   5. Visceral Hemangiomas

      • Juan Carlos López Gutiérrez

      Pages 39-47

   6. Principles of Therapy of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors of the Newborns and Infants

      • Hans Peter Berlien

      Pages 49-56

   7. Medical Treatment of Hemangiomas

      • Jochen Rössler, Charlotte Marie Niemeyer

      Pages 57-63

   8. Laser Therapy of Infantile Hemangiomas and Other Congenital Vascular Tumors of Newborns and Infants

      • Hans Peter Berlien

      Pages 65-77

   9. Surgery of Hemangiomas

      • Gianni Vercellio, Vittoria Baraldini

      Pages 79-83

   10. Facial Hemangiomas

       • Paul Rieu

       Pages 85-91

   11. Anogenital Hemangiomas

       • Rainer Grantzow, Kathrin Schäffer

       Pages 93-96

4. Vascular Malformations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Genetic Aspects of Vascular Malformations

      • Nisha Limaye, Miikka Vikkula

      Pages 99-108

   3. Epidemiology of Vascular Malformations

      • Géza Tasnádi

      Pages 109-110

   4. Classification of Vascular Malformations

      • Raul Mattassi, Dirk A. Loose, Massimo Vaghi

      Pages 111-114

   5. Non Invasive Diagnostics of Congenital Vascular Malformations

      • Massimo Vaghi

      Pages 115-120

R. Mattassi The field of congenital vascular malformations and the unfortunate patients that s- fer from them will welcome this truly multidisciplinary international contribution to the study and treatment of a group of diseases that is gradually becoming better known, but not better liked, by the majority of our colleagues. Without question, the power of the internet with its access to world-wide medical literature, and the publication of c- plete issues of medical journals devoted to the subject of vascular malformations, have contributed to expanding knowledge and eliciting curiosity amongst physicians who some decades ago would not have wanted to deal with unusual, poorly understood and challenging diseases. A group of authors from ten different countries, experts in their respective medical and surgical specialties, who have felt the pain of the many patients afflicted with v- cular malformations, have made a combined effort to increase and update the gr- ing knowledge of these diseases. The tremendous technological advances in non - vasive as well as invasive diagnostic techniques, imaging, genetics, and therapeutic surgical and endovascular procedures, have given us new weapons with which to treat and improve the lives of many desperate patients afflicted by diseases that some years ago produced only sorrow, compassion and despair in their families and in the rare physicians who dared to tackle their problems.

• Tumor
• angiogenesis
• bone
• classification
• diagnosis
• diagnostic imaging
• diagnostics
• imaging
• interventional radiology
• laser
• pathology
• radiology
• surgery
• ultrasound
• vascular surgery

From the reviews: “This comprehensive introduction to the difficult field of vascular malformations and hemangiomas is both well written and current. … This book is intended for any practicing physicians or physicians in training who treat patients with vascular tumors. … The chapters are extremely well done, with images and graphics of high quality. … This excellent book provides very useful information for researchers and clinicians, and is greatly needed as this complex field is evolving.” (Manuel Garcia-Toca, Doody’s Review Service, April, 2010)

• Department of Vascular Surgery, Center for Vascular Malformations “Stefan Belov”, “G. Salvini” Hospital, Garbagnate Milanese (Milan), Italy

  Raul Mattassi, Massimo Vaghi

• Center for Circulatory Disturbances and Vascular Defects, Department for Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Facharztklinik Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Dirk A. Loose

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