Can haemangiomas be treated by giving intralesional injections of steroids? Risk of bleeding is there. Has any one tried and any results that are better than systemic steroids?
I suppose you mean, INFANTILE HEMANGIOMAS. Please use beta-blocker propranolol firstly 1-2 mg/kg. daily under the supervision of a pediatric cardiolog.
Infantile haemangiomas are benign developmental vascular tumours that appear during the first months of life, and which characteristically have an initial proliferative and a later involutional phase.
Despite the good prognosis for spontaneous resolution of most infantile haemangiomas, there is no justification for therapeutic nihilism. The need for treatment of individual lesions should be carefully and sympathetically considered, and procrastination should be avoided because delay may severely reduce the opportunities for successful treatment.
cryotherapy; (x) IFN-α-2a; (xi) sclerosant injection; and (xii) radiotherapy.
Intralesional injection of corticosteroids may effect rapid shrinkage, and is a very popular treatment for lesions of the eyelids. In general, two or three treatments are
required at approximately 6-week intervals. The failure rate is around 30%.