Multifocal lymphangioendotheliomatosis with thrombocytopenia: A rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in the newborn period

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Piggott, Kurt D ^a   Riedel, Phillip A ^a   Baron, Howard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Multifocal lymphangioedotheliomatosis with thrombocytopenia; Newborn; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OCTREOTIDE; RANITIDINE; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; SUCRALFATE; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHANGIOENDOTHELIOMATOSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; LYMPHANGIOMA; PREMATURITY; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER; SKIN TUMOR;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LYMPHANGIOMA; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 33646371472     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1936     Document Type: Article

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