Question
My brother’s child is only four years old and has a strange growth on his face, which is red. The regional skin temperature is lower than that of the surrounding normal skin. After a thorough examination at the hospital, the doctor said the child has a vascular malformation. At such a young age, to have this condition is quite concerning, and we’re not sure what caused it. We’ve been quite careful in our daily life, and it’s really distressing.
Answer
Vascular malformations are benign diseases that typically grow slowly, do not threaten life, and will never become cancerous. Therefore, except for those with arterial or venous malformations that require timely endovascular intervention, the treatment methods for most patients with vascular malformations are not necessarily any one specific method; they should be chosen based on the symptoms and causes of each patient’s condition. It is recommended to adopt minimally invasive treatments such as regional anesthesia with pingyang mycin, photodynamic laser illumination, and electrochemical therapy.