Successful management of Visceral Klippel Trenaunay-Weber syndrome with the antifibrinolytic agent Tranexamic acid (Cyclocapron): A case report

American Surgeon

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 302-304

  Katsaros, Demetrios ^a   Grundfest Broniatowski, Sharon ^b,c  

^a FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Dept of General Surgery A80 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ADULT; ANGIOOSTEOHYPERTROPHY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; NEVUS; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; COLON, SIGMOID; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY-WEBER SYNDROME; MALE; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SIGMOID DISEASES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0031920508     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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