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Year : 2016  |  Volume : 64  |  Issue : 4  |  Page : 315-316

Bilateral congenital infantile hemangioma of upper eyelids


Institute of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Submission06-Jun-2015
Date of Acceptance08-Feb-2016
Date of Web Publication25-May-2016

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Syed Ali Raza Rizvi
Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology Service, Institute of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.182946

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Keywords: Bilateral, capillary hemangioma, upper eyelid


How to cite this article:
Rizvi SA, Mehmood F, Agrawal A. Bilateral congenital infantile hemangioma of upper eyelids. Indian J Ophthalmol 2016;64:315-6

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Rizvi SA, Mehmood F, Agrawal A. Bilateral congenital infantile hemangioma of upper eyelids. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2016 [cited 2024 Mar 28];64:315-6. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2016/64/4/315/182946

A newborn female baby presented to us with horizontally oval swelling involving posterior lamella of both upper eyelids and is limited by lid margin. The swelling was bright red, nontender, firm in consistency, nonreducible, blanches on pressure, and fixed to underlying structures with no rise in temperature. The size of the swelling was 2.8 cm × 1.1 cm × 1 cm in the right upper eyelid and 2.8 cm × 1.3 cm × 1 cm in the left upper eyelid. There was total occlusion of the visual axis [Figure 1]. Magnetic resonance imaging of both orbit shows diffusely bulky and heterogeneous altered signal intensity lesions involving the posterior lamella of upper eyelid on both sides [Figure 2].
Figure 1: Bilateral infantile hemangioma of upper eyelid


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Figure 2: Infantile hemangioma involving posterior lamella of upper eyelid on magnetic resonance imaging scan


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The patient was prescribed oral propranolol 2 mg/kg in two divided doses under the supervision of a pediatrician and responded well to the treatment within a week of the initiation of the treatment [Figure 3] and reduce further in size within 12 weeks of the treatment with the clearing of the visual axis [Figure 4].
Figure 3: Response of the lesion 1 week postmedication


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Figure 4: Response of the lesion 12 weeks postmedication


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Infantile hemangioma, a benign tumor of vascular endothelial cells, is the most common type of childhood tumor. [1] Infantile hemangiomas are more common in premature or low-birth-weight infants. [2] It usually presents at birth or is evident by 6-8 months of age. The lesion typically manifests within the first few weeks of life, grows rapidly in the 1 st year during the proliferative phase then invariably and slowly regresses over the following 4-5 years during the involutional phase. [3]

For the management, the long-term use of topical 0.5% timolol maleate solution is safe and effective in treating superficial infantile hemangiomas. [4] As compared to corticosteroids, oral propranolol also represents an effective therapy for periorbital infantile hemangioma. [5]

Bilateral infantile hemangioma of the upper eyelid involving posterior lamella is a new form of presentation of the lesion not reported in the literature earlier.

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  References Top

1.
Bruckner AL, Frieden IJ. Hemangiomas of infancy. J Am Acad Dermatol 2003;48:477-93.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
2.
Haik BG, Karcioglu ZA, Gordon RA, Pechous BP. Capillary hemangioma (infantile periocular hemangioma). Surv Ophthalmol 1994;38:399-426.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
3.
Kleiman A, Keats EC, Chan NG, Khan ZA. Evolution of hemangioma endothelium. Exp Mol Pathol 2012;93:264-72.  Back to cited text no. 3
    
4.
Rizvi SA, Yusuf F, Sharma R, Rizvi SW. Managment of superficial infantile capillary hemangiomas with topical timolol maleate solution. Semin Ophthalmol 2015;30:62-4.  Back to cited text no. 4
    
5.
Yen KG, Hussein MA. Oral propranolol in the management of periocular capillary hemangiomas. Int Ophthalmol Clin 2013;53:143-51.  Back to cited text no. 5
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