BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of intralesional propranolol injection in the management of periocular capillary hemangioma. METHODS A prospective study was performed in 22 consecutive patients with periocular hemangioma. Twelve patients underwent intralesional propranolol injection and ten patients underwent intralesional triamcinolone injection. The size of the ...

PURPOSE This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of intralesional bleomycin sclerotherapy in the treatment of lymphangioma in children and to determine the incidence of complications in the treatment. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 24 children diagnosed with lymphangioma and treated with intralesional injection of bleomycin aqueous solution from January 1999 to December 2004. ...

Salivary mucocele is a common lesion derived from minor salivary glands with various surgical or non-surgical treatment modalities. To evaluate the effect of a highly potent corticosteroid (dexamethasone) in the management of salivary mucocele, we performed intralesional injection of dexamethasone in nine patients with labial mucocele. Complete healing of lesions observed in seven of nine patie...

BACKGROUND Cryotherapy combined with intralesional triamcinolon injection is the most common traditional therapy for hypertrophic scars and keloids. The literature contains few articles on the use of bleomycin tattoo for treatment of these conditions. OBJECTIVE This study compares the efficacy of bleomycin tattoo with that of cryotherapy combined with intralesional triamcinolon injection for ...

Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic disease caused by leishmania species. An ideal treatment for CL has not found yet. Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of cryotherapy alone and combined with intralesional glucantime injection in the treatment of papulonodular CL. Patients and Methods: 300 patients with CL were randomly assigned to two treatment groups in this clini...

results there was a real faster response in the first group; while groups 3 and 4 had the slowest responses to treatment. rates of responsiveness seemed to have no significant difference between the groups, but side effects were significantly much frequent in the first group. conclusions intralesional triamcinolone acetonide with cryotherapy showed the most efficacies with more adverse effects,...

a 47 year-old woman presented with eight-month history of tattoo allergic reaction of eyebrows after botulinum toxin a injection that was resistant to oral, topical and intralesional injection of corticosteroids. multiple sessions of treatment with co2 fractional laser resulted in significant flattening of allergic papules and plaques as well as reduction of tattoo pigmentation

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate imaging findings during the follow-up of patients with aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) of C2 treated with intralesional injection of calcitonin and methylprednisolone. METHOD Three patients with ABC of C2 were treated percutaneously with intralesional injection of calcitonin and methylprednisolone. All the patients were females, with ages varying from 6 to 13 years. All of...

OBJECTIVES To continue assessment of the benefits and risks of intralesional administration of cidofovir, an acyclic nucleoside phosphonate, for treating severe recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) in pediatric patients, and to discuss guidelines for larger prospective multi-institutional studies of the use of cidofovir. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Tertiary care children's...