Suchitra Kanok-Kantapong M.D.
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Songklanagarind University


ABSTRACT
Many methods have been used to treat adnexal capillary hemangioma and some have associated with serious complications in the longterm follow-up.

Four children with large adnexal capillary hemangioma from Songlanagarind Hospital between May 1990 - October 1993, were treated with intralesional injection of corticosteroid. A marked and lasting regression of the heman gioma occurred in all. This treatment also proved effective in preventing amblyopia in children who had large hemangiomas that occluded the visual axis, resulted in a reversal of the astigmatism in duced by these tumors, and reduced the degrees of strabismus.

The advantages of intralesional corticosteroid injection include ease of administration, speed of action, freedom from side effects and without growth retardation.