Hepatic infantile hemangioendothelioma with unusual manifestations

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-113

  Burtelow, Matthew ^a   Garcia, Manuel ^a   Lucile, S ^a   Cox, Kenneth ^a   Berquist, William ^a   Kemer Jr , John ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LACTULOSE; PHENOBARBITAL; PREDNISOLONE; RETINOIC ACID; SPIRONOLACTONE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BLEEDING; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFANT; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; ULTRASOUND;

BILIARY ATRESIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30344439135     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpg.0000174330.51595.1b     Document Type: Article

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