Infantile haemangioma: Harmless 'strawberry' or life-threatening vascular anomaly?

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 385-389

  Roberts, Nerys ^a,b  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; IMIQUIMOD; PROPRANOLOL; THALIDOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN; VINCRISTINE;

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CANDIDIASIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EYE MALFORMATION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE HEMANGIOMA; LASER SURGERY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MOON FACE; MYOPATHY; NEUROECTODERM; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STOMACH IRRITATION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 70249146557     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-4-385     Document Type: Article

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