OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of intralesional triamcinolone in enhancing regression in various type of hemangiomas. SETTING Outpatients department of a teaching hospital Subjects: One hundred and five patients with rapidly growing surface hemangioma. The age ranged from 1 month to 15 months (mean 7 months). INTERVENTION Intralesional triamcinolone administered at monthly intervals, r...

PURPOSE To review records of 166 patients who underwent treatment for Mycobacterium marinum tenosynovitis of the hand and wrist to identify factors associated with functional outcome. METHODS Records of 97 men and 69 women aged 13 to 85 (mean, 50) years who underwent treatment for suspected M marinum tenosynovitis of the hand and wrist were retrospectively reviewed. All underwent open biopsy;...

The management of vascular anomalies is an extremely challenging area and is as divergent as the nature of lesions. Traditionally, embolization with the resection of the lesion has been used. The purpose of this report is to present cases treated successfully using sclerosing solution injections alone. Management of the vascular malformation using intralesional injections of sodium tetradecyl s...

INTRODUCTION: Many studies have proved the role, efficacy and safety profile of intralesional bleomycin in the management of hypertrophic scars and keloids.1 Liposomes, by virtue of their lipid bilayer, have potential to enhance the delivery of drug to the desired area. Drugs encapsulated in liposomes are expected to be transported without rapid degradation and minimum side effects to the recip...

We describe a patient with very late recurring leishmaniasis recidivans from whom lesional biopsy samples were obtained during and after topical steroid treatment that demonstrated the ability of the host to contain the parasite in the absence of therapy. Combination therapy with intralesional sodium stibogluconate and oral itraconazole was successful and immunologic data suggest that both CD4(...

aim and background:   knee osteoarthritis (oa) is a prevalent and disabling disease. periarticular corticosteroid injection has been traditionally used for the pain control in these patients. recently low power laser has been introduced as a therapeutic option. this study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of low power laser added to periarticular steroid injection for long-term treatment o...

We report the case of a woman in her 60s with confirmed multiple self-healing squamous epitheliomas (MSSE) Ferguson-Smith. After recurrences following surgery and radiotherapy, the patient was successfully treated with minimal surgical intervention combined with intralesional injections of triamcinolone acetate. The histological comparison between mature and regressed keratoacanthomas (KA) reve...

Background. The upper anterior abdominal wall is a very unusual location for an ectopic pregnancy making optimal management uncertain. Case. We report the case of a 26-year-old gravida 4, para 1, aborta 2 with a rising quantitative human chorionic gonadotropin level following a negative diagnostic laparoscopic examination. She was subsequently diagnosed with an abdominal wall ectopic pregnancy ...

Background and study aims: One of the major complications after endoscopic resection (ER) for large superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is benign esophageal stricture, which can reduce quality of life even if ESCC achieves a cure without organ resection. Recently, steroid administration has been reported as a prophylactic treatment to prevent esophageal strictures. This retros...