Analysis of the current state of the problems of diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of patients with superficial vascular formations of the skin (review of literature)
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https://doi.org/10.15574/SP.2025.4(148).128137Keywords:
vascular tumor, hemangioma, children, surgical intervention, treatment algorithm, dynamic observation, laser irradiationAbstract
Superficial vascular formation of the skin include a wide range of diseases, which makes their diagnosis and classification difficult. Benign vascular tumors are often mistaken for vascular malformations, but even more often vascular malformations are mistaken for vascular tumors. Such discrepancies in views on the etiopathogenesis of superficial vascular lesions of the skin and delayed diagnosis due to their incorrect classification are responsible for incorrectly selected treatment tactics and, accordingly, for unsatisfactory treatment outcomes and its possible complications.
The aim - to highlight contemporary views on the featuresdiagnostics and minimally invasive treatment of patients with superficial vascular lesions of the skin.
The diagnosis of superficial vascular formations of the skin is based on an assessment of the patient's general condition, the characteristics of the course and clinical picture of the pathological focus (detailing the shape, including relative to the skin level, color, surface and linear dimensions), accompanying symptoms and its anatomical localization. The need for diagnostic examination of superficial vascular formations of the skin increases with the degree of their possible malignancy, in order to monitor the pathology and assess the degree of disease, prevalence and infiltration into surrounding tissues, as well as potential metastasis. Malignant neoplasms of the skin remain an important public health problem today, as they continue to occupy leading positions among the causes of disability and mortality, both in children and adults in many countries of the world.
Conclusions. A wide range of unresolved problems indicates the need for further search for new minimally invasive methods of diagnosis and treatment of superficial vascular lesions of the skin, which should directly depend on the previous diagnosis and differential diagnosis, as well as take into account the indications and all possible contraindications. In addition, the analysis of current trends in the development of medical science indicates the need for further development and search for an ever-increasing arsenal of modern minimally invasive approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of superficial vascular lesions of the skin, which are integrated as an important part of interdisciplinary therapy regimens, especially among the pediatric population, which in turn requires all relevant specialists to have special knowledge, skills and abilities in the management of such patients.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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