Successful treatment of a child having generalized Kaposi's sarcoma after living donor liver transplantation with conversion to sirolimus

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-378

  Yuksekkaya, Hasan A ^a   Arikan, Cigdem ^a   Yazici, Ayse ^a   Baran, Masallah ^a   Aydogdu, Sema ^a   Kilic, Murat ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Kaposi's sarcoma; Pediatric liver transplantation; Sirolimus

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; SALBUTAMOL; TACROLIMUS;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MONOTHERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYROSINEMIA;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64149109078     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.00944.x     Document Type: Article

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