A Device for Polypectomy May Contribute to Safety in Bloodless Resection of a Small Hemangioma of the Tongue under Local Anesthesia

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Go Arai Hisako Fujihara Kazutoshi Nakaoka Koji Kawaguchi Mitsuhiko Hasebe Nanami Nakamura Shuji Koyama Takanori Eguchi Tomoyuki Saito Yoshiki Hamada

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Koji Kawaguchi
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Japan

A B S T R A C T

Hemangiomas require appropriate treatments with controlled intraoperative bleeding. Even for a small hemangioma, the treatment is usually provided under general anesthesia to control bleeding. However, in the case of the patients who are at high risk of surgery under general anesthesia, a surgical treatment method must be considered under local anesthesia. We performed polypectomy for the resection of a small tongue hemangioma in an 88-year-old patient under local anesthesia. The device for polypectomy is suitable for the resection of a small hemangioma of the tongue, even for a patient who is at risk for surgery under general anesthesia.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Thu 02, Apr 2020
Accepted: Mon 20, Apr 2020
Published: Wed 22, Apr 2020

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© 2023 Koji Kawaguchi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSO.2020.02.06