Ethanol injection therapy is gaining more acceptance for the treatment of vascular lesions. A case of extensive cavernous hemangioma treated with surgical resection and preoperative sclerotherapy with absolute ethanol is presented. By using magnetic resonance imaging, it was shown that ethanol injections in the vascular channels produced enough sclerosis that excisional surgery with less bleeding was possible.
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