Venous malformations can be treated by surgical resection or pharmacological sclerotherapy. This study shows the results of 12 patients with angiodysplasia whose lesions were injected several times with ethanol, after clinical examination and percutaneous venous angiography. Ten patients presented improvement of symptoms and reduction of the size of the lesion. All patients complained about a burning sensation during the procedure that disappeared after 24 hours. Three patients presented small skin ulcers and one had erythema and painful enlarged lymph nodes in the treated limb. We concluded that sclerotherapy with infusion of small volumes of ethanol for the treatment of venous malformations is an effective, safe, simple, easy and quick treatment, that has few complications, low cost, and is well tolerated.
Ethanol; Venous malformations; Angiodisplasy; Angiography
