Outcomes of surgical treatment for hemangiomas.
Jeffrey ChengBeiyu LiuHui-Jie LeePublished in: Pediatric dermatology (2019)
For children with infantile hemangioma who fail to respond or have an incomplete response to medical therapy, surgical resection may be a relatively safe treatment alternative. Children older than 3 years of age with hemangiomas had less surgical adverse events than younger children. Overall, however, the surgical complications rates were low and deemed relatively minor.