[Use of ultra high-frequency electromagnetic fields in pediatric surgery]

The procedures associated with the application of a super-frequency electromagnetic field (SFEMF) are being introduced into a therapeutical process in their various modifications at the Pediatric Surgery Hospital of Russian State Medical University. This has been preceded by enormous experimental work aimed at evaluating the potentialities of SFEMF for potentiation of cryogenic exposure and for individual use for endovascular occlusion and local hyperthermia. A total of 947 patients were treated with SFEMF from 1979 to 1990. The largest group included children with hemangiomas of various site (n = 465) and those with cheloid scars (n = 395). Thirty-one patients underwent intravascular coagulation with SFEMF in the treatment of arterial and venous malformations and 31 patients were treated for pigmentary spots of various site with SFEMF + cryodestruction. Local hypothermia was performed in 25 children with extensive hemangiomas of the face and neck with SFEMF. The total therapeutical 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.