Venous Lakes of the Lips Successfully Treated With a Sclerosing Agent 1% polidocanol: analysis of 25 report cases.

BACKGROUND: Venous lakes of the lip is vascular ectasia that generally appears on the lower lip and other sun-damaged surfaces of skin in elderly patient. There are many local therapies for treatment of lip venous lake such as surgical excision, cryotherapy, infrared coagulation and laser therapy. Sclerotherapy as treatment is used in varicose veins, leg telangiectasia, hemorrhoids and hemangiomas but for lip venous lake only two case has been reported. Therefore, we managed this study to determine the efficacy of injection of 1% polidocanol in the treatment of venous lake lesions.

METHODS: This is retrospective study. Twenty five adult patient presenting with several localizations of venous lake were enrolled in the study. Informed consent was given before the treatment and a photo of the venous lake was taken. After the lesion was cleaned with an antiseptic, was slowly injected 1% polidocanol into each patient's lesion, followed by compression for 5 min. Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scale was used to indicate patient satisfaction.

RESULT: Lesions were completely cleared in all patients after treatment. The lesions generally disappeared in two cases leaving an insignificant scar, in two cases become angioedema with two sessions of sclerotherapy. İn other cases side effects were not observed.

CONCLUSION: Sclerotherapy with polidocanol is an easy, inexpensive method and is found very effective in the treatment of lip venous lake. İn the future it offers an alternative to other classic methods.