Tufted angioma-associated Kasabach-Merritt syndrome treated with embolization and vincristine [14]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1392-1393

  Yesudian, Paul D ^a,b   Klafkowski, J ^a   Parslew, R ^a   Gould, D ^a   Lloyd, D ^a   Pizer, B ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Countess of Chester Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOMA; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LETTER; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 34247571467     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000255189.06739.07     Document Type: Letter

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