Twenty years' experience of steroids in infantile hemangioma-a developing country's perspective

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 688-694

  Pandey, Anand ^a   Gangopadhyay, Ajay Narayan ^a   Gopal, Saroj Chooramani ^a   Kumar, Vijayendra ^a   Sharma, Shiv Prasad ^a   Gupta, Dinesh Kumar ^a   Sinha, Chandrasen Kumar ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hemangioma; Intralesional steroids; Systemic steroids; Therapy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEAD; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOON FACE; MYCOSIS; NECK; ONSET AGE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN SWELLING; SKIN ULCER; STEROID THERAPY; THRUSH; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRUNK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 63649088903     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.10.038     Document Type: Article

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