Steroid treatment of an orbital or periocular hemangioma.
Orbital hemangiomas may cause deviation of the visual axis with amblyopia and loss of fusion in the infant as a result. Prior methods of treatment include radiation, injection of sclerosing solutions, surgery and ligation of feeding vessels and systemic steroids. A case is presented of an infant treated at five months of age with systemic prednisone over a six-week period with rapid resolution of an orbital hemangioma.
D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011859:Radiography
D011241:Prednisone