Nasal glioma masquerading as a capillary hemangioma

Abstract

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.