Abdominal cystic lymphangioma in children: Benign lesions that can have a proliferative course

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 677-680

  Steyaert, Henri ^a,b   Guitard, Jacques ^a   Moscovici, Jacques ^a   Juricic, Michel ^a   Vaysse, Philippe ^a   Juskiewenski, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Fondation Lenval Hopital pour Enfants   (France)

Author keywords

abdominal tumor; Cystic lymphangioma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CELIOSCOPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL TUMOR; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0029897895     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(96)90673-9     Document Type: Article

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