Skin hemangiomas in childhood registered in Villa Clara from 2012 until 2015

Abstract

Introduction: hemangiomas are the most common cutaneous tumor in the childhood. They are classified among the congenital vascular anomalies.
Objective: to identify the clinic-epidemiological behavior and 
therapeutic outcomes of the hemangiomas attended in the Infantile 
Hospital "Jose Luis Miranda", of Santa Clara, Villa Clara, in the 
period 2012-2015.
Materials and Methods: the bibliographic method and techniques of 
information visualization and representation were used. The study 
classifies as retrospective, descriptive of longitudinal type. The 
universe was composed by all the children with cutaneous hemangiomas attended at the Infantile Hospital "José Luis Miranda", of Villa  Clara. The analyzed variables were: age, kind of lesion, location, 
complications, conditions by sex, race, and family antecedents and 
also the prescribed treatment and evolution.
Results: the conditions were determined by the children´s race, age, 
sex and family antecedents. Lesions were studied according to their 
kind and complications. The behavior of the cutaneous hemangiomas in 
childhood registered in Villa Clara between 2012 and 2015 agree with 
the criteria described by several specialists and researchers of this 
condition.
Conclusions: it was corroborated that the patients more regularly 
affected were the female, white ones, aged less than a year. Lesions 
were located more frequently on the face, the scalp and the trunk. The 
most effective treatments were surgery, electro-desiccation and local 
and systemic steroids.