Symptomatic hemangioma of oral cavity treated with CO2 laser

Ester Maria Danielli Nicola; Adriana Azevedo Coutinho; Jorge Humberto Nicola; Reinaldo Jordao Gusmao

doi:10.1117/12.209102

12 May 1995 Symptomatic hemangioma of oral cavity treated with CO₂ laser

Ester Maria Danielli Nicola, Adriana Azevedo Coutinho, Jorge Humberto Nicola, Reinaldo Jordao Gusmao

Proceedings Volume 2395, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems V; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.209102
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The CO₂ laser has been used by our group as a secure and efficient tool for the treatment of symptomatic oral cavity hemangiomas which can be responsible for disturbance for swallowing, phonation and in hygienic, besides discomfort and bleeding to patients. During the last four years, twelve patients with symptomatic oral cavity hemangioma were treated at the Laser Unit of our University. The treatment consisted in the application of CO₂ laser at medium to low intensity according to characteristics and location of the lesions. For hemangiomas located at sites of easy surgical access such as anterior 1/3 of the tongue, lips, bucal vestibule we use 10 to 37 J/mm² over the surface of the lesion. When the hemangioma was located at difficult surgical access sites, such as, tonsils, posterior 1/3 of tongue, or at pharyngeal wall we used 3.0 to 4.0 J/mm² encircling the whole hemangioma. This causes reduction in the size of the lesion throughout sclerosis of nutrition vessels. After this initial procedure we applied 0.8 to 1.0 J/mm² over the whole extent of the lesion. For both procedures we observed no significant bleeding or inflammatory reaction. The patients referred minimal post-operative discomfort with good cicatricial evolution. The evident reduction in the vascularization and size could be confirmed by photographic documentation. The good results described above, with disappearance of symptoms lead to the conclusion that CO₂ laser is an efficient and secure method of treatment for symptomatic hemangioma of the oral cavity.

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Ester Maria Danielli Nicola, Adriana Azevedo Coutinho, Jorge Humberto Nicola, and Reinaldo Jordao Gusmao "Symptomatic hemangioma of oral cavity treated with CO₂ laser", Proc. SPIE 2395, Lasers in Surgery: Advanced Characterization, Therapeutics, and Systems V, (12 May 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.209102

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