Levine M R, Kellis A, Lash R
Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 1993 Jun;9(2):132-4.
A female infant was born with a reddish-purple mass situated on the dorsum of the nose and extending onto the left medial canthal region. A presumptive diagnosis of capillary hemangioma was made, and the patient was treated with multiple intralacrimal steroids and cryotherapy without success. A diagnostic incisional biopsy was confirmatory, but erroneous, due to the lack of depth. At 9 months of age, without signs of involution, the mass was removed and a diagnosis of nasal glioma was made.
