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Serious group A streptococcal infections complicating cryotherapy to lip haemangiomas
A L Armstrong1, R G Finch, F B Bailie
1Department of Plastic Surgery, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
Cryotherapy is a safe and effective way of treating haemangiomas of the oval cavity and lips without complications in adults in a reported series. Two cases of serious group A streptococcal infection after cryotherapy in two children are reported. In conclusion it is likely that these children were undiagnosed carriers for the organism. Pre-operative nasopharyngeal swabs would have identified this and prevented the complications which occurred.