Diffuse thoracic lymphangiomatosis with disseminated intravascular coagulation in a child

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 685-687

  Tamay, Zeynep ^a,b   Saribeyoglu, Ebru ^a   Ones, Ulker ^a   Anak, Sema ^a   Güler, Nermin ^a   Bilgic, Bilge ^a   Yilmazbayhan, Dilek ^a   Gun, Feryal ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Disseminated intravascular coagulation; Lymphangiomatosis; Pediatrics; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; STEROID; TAMOXIFEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPHANGIOMATOSIS; MEDIASTINUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; DYSPNEA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOMA; MEDIASTINUM; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TAMOXIFEN; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 29144436986     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mph.0000193476.14493.06     Document Type: Article

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