ABSTRACT
During 5 years, from 1993 to 1997, we have treated 1042 cases of hemangioma of the skin, most of the patients are children under 1 year old. 70% of patients are the girls and 2/3 of them live in Ho Chi Minh city, almost in the 1st, Binh Thanh, Go Vap district. In 83.5% of cases, the hemangioma were seen at the time of birth, and appear on the 1st or the 2nd child of family. More than 84% of patients have only one lesion, and about half of them are on the head and neck region of the body. The tuberous form are more than the plane form. The mean time of treatment was 5 months with the average dose of 160 Gy, we got a good result on 94.8% of cases, with very small complications, and very rare recurrent cases. This is oldest but efficiently method for the treatment of the superficial Hemangioma of the children. It still has a big disadvantage: the treatment time is very long, makes difficulty to the children going everyday to hospital for the treatment