Short-term high-dose oral prednisone on alternate days: A more rational regime for infantile hemangiomas

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 365-

  Zheng, Jia Wei ^a   Yang, Xiu Juan ^a   Zhou, Qin ^a   Wang, Yan An ^a   Ye, Wei Min ^a   Zhu, Han Guang ^a   Zhang, Zhi Yuan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; STEROID;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; GROWTH DISORDER; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRRITABILITY; LETTER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CHILD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; PREDNISONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59249100029     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.10.004     Document Type: Letter

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