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Year : 2016 | Volume
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Bilateral congenital infantile hemangioma of upper eyelids
Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, Faizan Mehmood, Abhishek Agrawal
Institute of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Submission | 06-Jun-2015 |
Date of Acceptance | 08-Feb-2016 |
Date of Web Publication | 25-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
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.182946
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 |
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 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].
Discussion | | |
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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