Case 236

 A seventy four-year-old male presented in our hospital for swollen tongue with a referring letter from a local hospital. It said he had angioma in the left tongue. Medical inspection showed a large swollen lesion with cyst and reddish-black vessels (Fig. 1). He previously received partially resection of its part but the lesion was growing year by year. He desired to get the lesion to be shrunken. He gave us MRI images he took in other hospital (Figs 2-4).

What is proper management for shrinkage of this lesion ?

1.　Lipiodol infusion

2.　Ethanol infusion

3.　Lipiodol-ethanol emulsion infusion

4.　Ethanol amine oleate infusion

5.　N-butyl cyanoacrylate infusion

answer

2021.7.1