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Subglottic hemangioma of the larynx treated with steroid therapy
Author(s) -
Overcash Kelly E.,
Putney F. Johnson
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-197305000-00003
Subject(s) - medicine , hemangioma , prednisone , radiation therapy , surgery , larynx , capillary hemangioma , radiology
Previous experience with different modes of therapy of subglottic hemangioma have not been entirely satisfactory. Response of hemangiomas in general and specifically subglottic hemangiomas in infants to steroid therapy prompted this mode of therapy in two infants. Because of the possible late complications of radiation therapy to the head and neck area of children, a safer modality might avoid these possible complications. One patient with a biopsy proven cavernous hemangioma was decannulated six months following prednisone therapy. The second case, with histologically proven capillary hemangioma, did not have as great an initial response to steroid therapy. External signs of a Cushingnoid syndrome developed in both cases and improved with no residual effects on tapering doses of medication.