Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report

Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are common benign lesions involving most part of the body. It can regress spontaneously but these hemangiomas should be treated early on course of evolution to prevent further complications. Different treatment options are available for its management. Topical timolol 0.5...

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Autores principales: Borkar, Nitin, Sharma, Aarti, Hota, Dayanand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8906260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283589
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_69_20
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description Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are common benign lesions involving most part of the body. It can regress spontaneously but these hemangiomas should be treated early on course of evolution to prevent further complications. Different treatment options are available for its management. Topical timolol 0.5% solution available as eye drops or gel can be used as first-line therapy even in complicated IH. We have successfully treated a large complicated facial IH by using topical timolol 0.5% solution.
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spelling pubmed-89062602022-03-10 Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report Borkar, Nitin Sharma, Aarti Hota, Dayanand J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Reports Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are common benign lesions involving most part of the body. It can regress spontaneously but these hemangiomas should be treated early on course of evolution to prevent further complications. Different treatment options are available for its management. Topical timolol 0.5% solution available as eye drops or gel can be used as first-line therapy even in complicated IH. We have successfully treated a large complicated facial IH by using topical timolol 0.5% solution. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8906260/ /pubmed/35283589 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_69_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report
title_full Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report
title_fullStr Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report
title_short Complicated Infantile Hemangioma Successfully Treated with Topical Timolol 0.5% Solution: A Case Report
title_sort complicated infantile hemangioma successfully treated with topical timolol 0.5% solution: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8906260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283589
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