Therapeutic superiority of combined propranolol with short steroids course over propranolol monotherapy in infantile hemangioma

Infantile hemangiomas are the most common benign childhood tumor that may have functional and/or cosmetic complications. We aimed to compare the clinical efficacy of propranolol alone and propranolol primed with systemic corticosteroids on the outcome of infantile hemangioma. A prospective randomized study included 40 infants aged less than 9 months with cutaneous hemangiomas. Patients were randomly assigned into two groups: group A were given...