[Immature angiomas in infants].
Immature hemangiomas are frequent during infancy. Strawberry or cavernous hemangiomas have a specific evolution with an extensive phase, followed with a spontaneously regressive phase. Complications (cutaneous necrosis, pain and infection) are most often benign. More severe evolutions may occur, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation, which needs specific treatment. Most often, immature hemangiomas regress spontaneously and a clinical follow-up is sufficient. Systemic steroid therapy may be used in the case of important growing, vital or functional impairment (laryngeal or eyelid involvement). The dosage (more than 2 mg/kg/d prednisone) and the length of such treatment must be adequate. Surgery with or without embolization is rarely needed.
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Clinique dermatologique, hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon, France.
D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors
Les angiomes immatures du nourrisson.