Aim To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of combined oral propranolol with intralesional injection of triamcinolone acetonide in the treatment of infantile periorbital capillary hemangioma. Patients and Methods This prospective interventional study included children diagnosed with periocular infantile hemangiomas in the proliferative phase with vision-threatening lesions. The children prese...

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,...

BACKGROUND Keloids are a common problem with significant recurrence rates despite intralesional steroid treatment and multimodal therapy. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of using a 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/steroid mixture to treat keloids over the past 7 years, comparing the results with use of steroid treatment alone. METHODS Patient charts from 1999 to 2006 w...

A 3-year-old boy presented with complaints of irritability for one month, nonprojectile vomiting for 4 days and medial deviation of both eyes for 3 days. There was no history of fever, headache, seizures or neck stiffness during this period. The child had scalds over 75% of the body surface area one year previously. For the hypertrophic scar due to scald, the child was receiving intralesional i...