Management of a Large Congenital Hemangioma Obstructing Visual Axis: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Management of a Large Congenital Hemangioma Obstructing Visual Axis: A Case Report and Review of Literature: Congenital hemangiomas comprise a subset of vascular tumors with clinicopathologic features that are distinct from the more common infantile hemangioma. The authors present a patient with a large congenital hemangioma involving the forehead and brow which obstructed the visual axis and created significant risk for deprivational amblyopia. Management of the congenital hemangioma involved customized headgear to clear the visual axis and early vascular embolization of feeder vessels with the subsequent successful surgical resection at 23 days of life.

Accepted for publication August 21, 2019.

The authors have no financial or conflicts of interest to disclose.

Accepted for presentation at the Canadian Ophthalmic Society, Quebec in June 2019.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Sara AlShaker, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. E-mail: s.alshaker@mail.utoronto.ca

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