Hepatic-Artery Ligation for Hepatic Hemangiomatosis

Abstract

THE involuting hemangioma (capillary hemangioma or hemangioendothelioma) of childhood is a congenital vascular malformation, which progressively enlarges in early infancy, becomes stationary for a variable period and then spontaneously regresses. About 60 per cent of all cutaneous lesions are present at birth; the remainder become evident within two months after birth. Capillary hemangiomas attain their maximum growth in the first six months in half the cases and in six to twelve months in the rest. After a stationary period, involution occurs before six months of age in 16 per cent of the patients, between six to twelve months in 65 . . .