Infantile Hemangioma

For propranolol in infantile hemangioma, only "provisional" guidelines available

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A multidisciplinary panel of experts held a consensus conference exactly a year ago to develop evidence-based recommendations for using propranolol for infantile hemang...

Photodynamic therapy for retinal capillary hemangioma

Photodynamic therapy for retinal capillary hemangioma Eye advance online publication, January 4 2013. doi:10.1038/eye.2012.259 Authors: V P Papastefanou, S Pilli, A Stinghe, A J Lotery...

Intrinsic regulation of hemangioma involution by platelet-derived growth factor

Proper Diagnosis Key to Successful Treatment of Facial Birthmark in Young Children

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A reddish birthmark that appears on a baby's skin in the first few weeks after birth is most often harmless, but should be brought to a phy...

Infantile Hemangioma: Propranolol vs Corticosteroids

The success rate for propranolol was 97% in a meta-analysis, but some surgeons worry about the immediate adverse effects of the beta blocker. Medscape Medical News

Infantile Hemangiomas Grow Fastest in Early Weeks After Birth

Researchers who used parental photographs to track the dynamics of infantile hemangioma growth over time urge a shift in treatment practices. Medscape Medical News

‘Strawberry’ birthmarks grow rapidly when babies just weeks old

Strawberry-shaped birthmarks called infantile hemangiomas (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hemangioma/DS00848) grow rapidly in infants much earlier than previously thought, Mayo Clinic and...

Old dog, new trick: Maruho gains Japan rights to Pierre Fabre's hemangioma drug

Propranolol may be the result of an earlier, simpler age of drug discovery in the 1960s but there is still life left in the aging beta-blocker yet, as shown by Laboratoires Pierre Fabre's new Japanes...

Primary intraosseous cavernous hemangioma of the toe.

Intraosseous cavernous hemangioma is an uncommon benign vascular tumor. A 21-year-old man presented with a small painless swelling of the left foot's long toe. X-ray examination showed an outgrowing b...

Thoracoscopic resection of a mediastinal venous hemangioma: Report of a case.

Mediastinal hemangioma is a rare tumor, accounting for 0.5% or fewer of all mediastinal tumors in most reports. We herein report a case of thoracoscopic resection of venous hemangioma in the middle me...

Hemangioma of the prostate - an unusual cause of lower urinary tract symptoms : Case report.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Hemangioma of the prostate gland is extremely rare and only a few cases have been reported. There have been several cases of hemangioma of posterior urethra, urinary bladder and...

Hemangioma related with Maffucci syndrome: a case report.

ABSTRACT: Introduction Maffucci syndrome is a rare clinical entity (approximately 200 cases have been reported in the medical literature) with combined occurrence of multiple enchondromas and vascular...

Expression of HLA-G in hemangioma and its clinical significance.

This study examined the roles of HLA-G in the pathogenesis, development and immune tolerance of hemangioma. From 2000 to 2007, 52 paraffin-embedded specimens (26 from males and 26 from females) of ski...