Gorham Stout Syndrome (Disappearing Bone Disease): Two Additional Case Reports and a Review of the Literature

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1340-1343

  Lee, Samson ^a   Finn, Laura ^a   Sze, Raymond W ^b   Perkins, Jonathan A ^a   Sie, Kathleen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BONE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GORHAM STOUT SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LYMPHANGIOMA; MAXILLOFACIAL DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOLYSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPINE INSTABILITY;

BIOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHYLOTHORAX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MANDIBULAR NEOPLASMS; OSTEOLYSIS, ESSENTIAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348111483     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.129.12.1340     Document Type: Article

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