Reconstructive

905) Which of the following guidelines regarding steroid therapy for Hemangioma is INCORRECT?

A. Steroid treatment provokes a better response in the involuting hemangioma phase than in the Proliferating Hemangioma phase.
B. Steroids are given for a rapidly growing hemangioma that seriously distorts facial features.
C. Steroids are given for a lesion where there is bleeding, ulceration or infection.
D. Steroids are given for a lesion that interferes with essential, normal, and physiological functions.
E. Steroids are given for large or multicentric hemangiomas that causes bleeding and/or high cardiac output failure.





REFERENCES & ANSWER

Smith J. D.: Vascular Lesions of the Head and Neck , chapter 5 in Pediatric Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ( Smith J.D., and Bumsted R. M, editors), 1993, pp. 53-78



905) A        Steroid treatment provokes a better response in the involuting hemangioma phase than in the Proliferating Hemangioma phase.