Successful surgical excision of a complex vascular lesion in an infant with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Pediatric Dermatology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 340-344

  George, Manju ^a,b   Singhal, Virender ^a   Sharma, Vidya ^a   Nopper, Amy Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CRYOPRECIPITATE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FIBROSARCOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0036656655     PISSN: 07368046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1470.2002.t01-1-00097.x     Document Type: Article

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