Life-threatening blood loss from scratching provoked by pruritus in the bulky perineal nevocytoma variant of giant congenital melanocytic nevus in a child

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 53, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Feng, Jing ^a   Sethi, Aisha ^a   Reyes Múgica, Miguel ^a   Antaya, Richard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ONDANSETRON;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCRATCHING; SKIN BLEEDING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANAL CANAL; ANEMIA; ANTIPRURITICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; ONDANSETRON; PRURITUS; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; VULVA;

EID: 21844431602     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2004.12.040     Document Type: Article

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