Clinical practice guideline for the management of infantile hemangiomas

DP Krowchuk, IJ Frieden, AJ Mancini, DH Darrow… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
This is the first clinical practice guideline (CPG) from the American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) regarding the management of infantile hemangiomas (IHs). Similar consensus
statements have been published by European 1 and Australasian expert groups. 2 In
addition, a recent AAP clinical report provided a comprehensive review of the pathogenesis,
clinical features, and treatment of IH; it is available at http://pediatrics. aappublications.
org/content/136/4/e1060. 3 IHs occur in approximately 4% to 5% of infants, making them the …