Hemangioma of the liver in children: Proliferating vascular tumor or congenital vascular malformation?

Medical and Pediatric Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 524-529

  Prokurat, Andrzej ^a   Kluge, Przemysaw ^a   Chrupek, Malgorzata ^a   Kociesza, Andrzej ^a   Rajszys, Pawel ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma; Liver resection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CARCINOGENESIS; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036836554     PISSN: 00981532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.10179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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