USE OF SUPERFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC-FIE LD IN PEDIATRIC-SURGERY

The procedures associated with the application of a super-frequency el ectromagnetic field (SFEMF) are being introduced into a therapeutical process in their various modifications at the Pediatric Surgery Hospit al of Russian State Medical University. This has been proceded by enor mous experimental work aimed at evaluating the potentialities of SFEMF for potentiation of cryogenic exposure and for individual use for end ovascular occlusion and local hyperthermia. A total of 947 patients we re treated with SFEMF from 1979 to 1990. The largest group included ch ildren with hemangiomas of various site (n=465) and those with cheloid scars (n=395). Thirty-one patients underwent intravascular coagulatio n with SFEMF in the treatment of arterial and venous malformations and 31 patients were treated for pigmentary spots of various site with SF EMF+cryodestruction. Local hypothermia was performed in 25 children wi th extensive hemangiomas of the face and neck with SFEMF. The total th erapeutical benefits reached 98 %. For these purposes the authors used a Plot routine apparatus, 915 mHz, with a set of contact and special emitters. The experience with SFEMF in pediatric surgery suggests that it is highly effective and the trend is promising.