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MEDISAN
versión On-line ISSN 1029-3019
Resumen
CHERCOLES CAZATE, Lilia Esperanza y DIAZ SOCARRAS, Félix Javier. Some specificities on external hemangiomas in children. MEDISAN [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.3, pp. 310-317. ISSN 1029-3019.
Hemangiomas are benign vascular tumors with very specific biological characteristics during childhood; these tumors can be located in organs, and receive the name of "internal", or in head, neck, trunk and extremities that are denominated "external", which grow to a variable speed. Some clinical epidemiological particularities of external hemangiomas were exposed with this work, such as their classification, diagnosis and clinical course. Also, there is a reference to some aspects related to the effectiveness of propranolol as therapeutic proposal of first election in children and the results of some authors in this respect are presented, most of which coincide as for its use as first line medication
Palabras clave : hemangioma; children; propranolol; neoplasm of vascular tissue.