Debulking of a gastrointestinal hemangioma alleviates coagulopathy associated with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 236-238

  Mahmoud, Najjia N ^a   Mack, Charles A ^a   DeCosse, Jerome J ^a   Michaeli, Joseph ^a   Bertagnolli, Monica M ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 0033019363     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(99)70272-2     Document Type: Article

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