Effect of electrochemotherapy in treating patients with venous malformations.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of electrochemotherapy in treating venous malformations.

Methods: Electrochemotherapy was applied to 665 patients with venous malformations of limbs and trunk, and 505 cases were followed up for half to 6 years. In this study, 228 male and 277 female patients were involved.

Abnormal blood vessels formed by human liver cavernous hemangioma endothelial cells in nude mice are suitable for drug evaluation.

Cavernous hemangioma is vascular malformation with developmental aberrations. It was assumed that the abnormality of endothelial cells contributed greatly to the occurrence of cavernous hemangioma. In our previous study, we have found distinct characteristics of endothelial cells derived from human liver cavernous hemangioma (HCHEC).

[Characteristics of endothelial cells derived from human hepatic cavernous hemangioma in vitro].

Objective: To investigate the characteristics of endothelial cells derived from human cavernous hemangioma in morphology, phenotypes and functions.

Methods: Endothelial cells were isolated from human hepatic cavernous hemangioma. The morphological, and phenotypical and functional features of these cells were analyzed by transmission electron microscopy, fluorescence-activated cell sorter, RT-PCR, zymography, and confocal microscopy.

Morphologic, phenotypic and functional characteristics of endothelial cells derived from human hepatic cavernous hemangioma.

Backgrounds/aims: The pathogenesis of cavernous hemangiomas is largely unknown, and it is speculated that abnormal vasculogenesis and angiogenesis may be involved. In this study, the characteristics of cavernous hemangioma endothelial cells (CHECs) derived from the human liver were analyzed in terms of morphology, phenotype and function and compared with human liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs).

Methods And Results: By transmission electron microscopy, abnormally expanded endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and similarly arranged cytoplasmic vacuoles were only found in CHECs.

Effect of electro-acupuncture in treating patients with lingual hemangioma.

Objective: To explore the clinical effect of electro-acupuncture (EA) in treating patients with lingual hemangioma (LHG).

Methods: EA therapy was applied on 36 patients by directly inserting the platinum needles into LHG through a trocar with plastic insulating cannula to protect the normal tissues and connecting the needles with the electro-chemical therapeutic apparatus of model ZAY-B. Then electricity was given until the tumor body got contracted and rigid.

Combined electro-acupuncture with liver artery intubation in treatment of massive liver cancer.

Objective: To investigate the clinical effectiveness of electro-acupuncture therapy (EAT) in combination with liver artery intubation chemotherapy for massive liver cancer.

Methods: A total of 106 patients were divided into 3 groups. In group A, patients underwent EAT in combination with invasive therapy.

[Replacement of artificial tracheal prosthesis by two-stage procedure with memory-alloy mesh].

Objective: To design an artificial trachea which can totally heal with the native trachea.

Methods: Using memory-alloy mesh as the skeleton to construct an artificial trachea by two-stage operation. After 2-year animal experiment we successfully performed the operation in a patient with recurrent carcinoid of the trachea, radically resected the tumor and primarily reconstructed the trachea.

[Observation on effect of electro-acupuncture in treating maxillofacial hemangioma].

Objective: To investigate the clinical effect of electro-acupuncture (EA) in treating maxillofacial hemangioma (MFH).

Methods: The platinum needles (electrode) were inserted into the MFH under location and guidance with B-ultrasonography or CT, with the number of needles used according to the size of the MFH to make the distance between needles about 1.5 cm, and the peri-lesional health tissue was protected with plastic insulating tube.