Diffuse splenic and visceral hemangiomas complicated by chronic consumption coagulopathy

Pediatrics International

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-384

  Platokouki, Helen ^a   Aronis, Sophie ^a   Mitsika, Angeliki ^a   Keramidas, Demetrios ^a   Harokopos, Efstathios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Consumption coagulopathy; Kasabach Merritt Syndrome; Spleen hemangioma; Visceral hemangiomatosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECCHYMOSIS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LAPAROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN TUMOR; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; SPLENIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031818555     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1998.tb01954.x     Document Type: Article

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