Recurrent life-threatening hemothorax in an infant with pleurocutaneous kaposiform hemangio-endothelioma [1]

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 630-632

  Chen, Rong Long ^a,b   Chang, Pau Yuan ^a   Hsu, Yung Hsiang ^a   Chang, Ying Hsiu ^a   Peng, Hai Chi ^a  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFANT; KAPOSIFORM HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LETTER; MALE; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPASTICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 33749340893     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mph.0000212957.81468.66     Document Type: Letter

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