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Persistence into Adulthood of Untreated Lesions

C. H. McCUISTION, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1954;69(2):219-229.

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A CERTAIN percentage of infantile cavernous hemangiomas, if untreated, persist into adulthood. Since they respond well to irradiation during infancy and since later they may become very troublesome, I believe the physician should advise early treatment. Since the purpose of this paper is to show that persistence of hemangiomas is not uncommon and since types of therapy are adequately covered elsewhere in the literature, only indirect reference to therapy will be made. Furthermore, various types of vascular nevi will require varying forms of therapy.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Whether to treat or not to treat cavernous hemangiomas is a provocative subject. A thorough review of the literature only serves to point up the lack of harmony of concepts in types of therapy, the age at which treatment should be started, or whether hemangiomas should be treated at all.

Lister,¹ who obviously included cavernous hemangiomas under the classification strawberry . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
AUSTIN, TEXAS

Footnotes
Forty-five photographs were used in the original presentation, but, owing to lack of space, only a small number was published.

Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the 102d Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 4, 1953.

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