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Conservative treatment of Head and Neck hemangiomas using Intralesional Bleomycin

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Background

Hemangiomas are vascular tumours and commonly occur in head and neck region. Complete treatment of these vascular swellings are often challenging. As surgical excision carries high risk of complications and poor cosmetic outcome, treatment is shifted more towards non-surgical modalities like steroid therapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and sclerotherapy.

Objective

To study the efficacy of intralesional Bleomycin sclerotherapy for head and neck hemangiomas.

Method

Seventeen patients ( 9 males and 8 females) with head and neck hemangiomas were treated with sclerotherapy using intralesional bleomycin injection ( 0.1–0.5 mg/kg/ dose) in a medical college of India. Details of the patients were recorded along with serial photographs of lesion. Post injection outcomes in form of reduction of lesion size, patient satisfaction and complications were also recorded.

Results

11 patients were completely cured, 3 had more than 50% reduction in size, one patient showed minimal reduction and two had no response. One patient had superficial ulceration, one case of slough and fever was reported. None of the patients developed severe toxic side effects and pulmonary fibrosis with follow up of 18 months.

Conclusions

Bleomycin injection is safe, easy and well tolerated method for treatment of head and neck hemangiomas. We recommend surgery only if there is no response to other conservative treatment modalities.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya Geeta Colony, Delhi, India

    Ekta Narang, Neha Jain, Suparna Roy & Jyoti Singh

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, RML Hospital, Delhi, India

    Jaswinder Kaur

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Narang, E., Jain, N., Kaur, J. et al. Conservative treatment of Head and Neck hemangiomas using Intralesional Bleomycin. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 75, 236–240 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-022-03133-x

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