Concurrent Infantile Hemangioendothelioma and Mesenchymal Hamartoma in a Developmentally Arrested Liver of an Infant Requiring Hepatic Transplantation

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 552-557

  Bejarano, Pablo A ^a   Serrano, Maria F ^a   Casillas, Javier ^a   Dehner, Louis P ^b   Kato, Tomoaki ^a   Mittal, Naveen ^a   Rodriguez, Maria M ^a   Tzakis, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha fetoprotein; Dysmorphism; Infantile hemangioendothelioma; Liver; Mesenchymal hamartoma; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0346992214     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10024-003-3024-7     Document Type: Article

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