Systemic corticosteroid use in orbital lymphangioma.

PURPOSE: To describe the clinical results of systemic corticosteroid use in a series of patients with orbital lymphangioma.

METHODS

Four patients (two adults and two children) were treated with corticosteroids using intravenous, oral, or both routes for 2 days to a month. Corticosteroids were used with and without other therapies for symptomatic exacerbations.

RESULTS

The adults showed more improvement with pain than with swelling, whereas the children had improvement with both the signs and symptoms. There were no complications in any patient.

CONCLUSIONS

Systemic corticosteroids are a useful therapeutic option for patients with orbital lymphangioma and can be used as an adjuvant treatment to surgery and other modalities. Resolution of symptoms with corticosteroids was expedited compared with the natural history of the disease in the patients studied.