TREATMENT OF AN AGGRESSIVE HAEMANGIOMATOUS LESION WITH ALPHA-INTERFERON

Angiomatous lesions that follow an aggressive clinical course are fort unately rare. Those that do may pose significant problems in managemen t. Of the modalities of treatment, which include surgery, embolisation , radiation, chemotherapy, and steroids, some are not without complica tions and, as well, yield limited success. The use of interferon was f irst reported in the treatment of pulmonary angiomatous diseases with success [6] and has been followed by two papers reporting the use of a lpha-interferon (AI) therapy on more heterogeneous angiomatous lesions [5, 7]. We report a case of an infant with an aggressive haemangiomat ous lesions of the right thigh that confirmed the efficacy of AI in tr eating this type of condition.