Corticosteroid administration has been widely used as the empirical treatment for various inner ear diseases such as sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), Meniere disease, and autoimmune-induced hearing loss for a long time. After Sakata et al. [1] first tried intratympanic (IT) steroid injection to control Meniere disease, IT steroid injection treatment has been used as an alternative opti...

IMPORTANCE Oral lesions of pemphigus vulgaris are usually recalcitrant and respond slowly to treatments. Corticosteroid injection is considered to be the most effective local treatment in oral pemphigus vulgaris. However, intralesional corticosteroids are not effective in all remnant lesions. In 3 such patients with pemphigus vulgaris, we evaluated the utility of 2 injections (on days 1 and 15)...

■ EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER Subacromial steroid injection may provide a small, short-term benefit compared with placebo. The short-term effectiveness of steroid injection compared with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) remains unclear. Steroid injections are better than physiotherapy alone in the short term. However, injection does not appear to provide any meaningful longterm benefit ...

Patients with chalazia were randomly allocated to treatment by intralesional triamcinolone injection or incision and curettage. Incision and curettage resulted in a significantly higher rate of resolution by two weeks after treatment.

Background & Aims: Leishmaniasis exists in more than half of Iran provinces and more than 20,000 cases are reported annually. In the recent years, several therapeutic approaches such as topical and physical treatments have been investigated. In the present study, the efficacy of co-administration of topical Niosomal Dapsone gel and Glucantime intralesional injection has been evaluated. Method: ...

and efficacy of treatment in patients with LC in the course of BCLL are controversial. Many authors describe poor prognosis, when LC shows blastic transformation, known as Richter’s syndrome, and when it appears after the diagnosis of B-CLL. The potential benefit of treating only skin lesions has not been documented; however, these patients rarely stay without treatment. Numerous therapeutic mo...