Utility of the Infantile Hemangioma Referral Score (IHReS) as a decision-making tool for referral to treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The general paediatricians and primary care physicians sometimes face immense difficulty in referral judgements regarding which infantile hemangiomas (IHs) require referrals and when is the appropriate time to refer IHs for treatment. This resulted in the treatment being delayed beyond IHs' critical timeframe. The Infantile Hemangioma Referral Score (IHReS) has been recently developed, with the aim to solve this problem.

Objectives

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the reliability of IHReS and to assess the possibility of using this instrument in our country where a similar problem of delaying treatment of IHs is currently existing.

Methods

The present study was a prospective, cross-sectional study. Thirteen selected clinical cases were used

SUBMITTER: Chitpiromsak K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444243 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature