Life-threatening infantile haemangioma: A dramatic response to propranolol

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1465-1466

  Theletsane, T ^a   Redfern, A ^a   Raynham, O ^a   Harris, T ^a   Prose, N S ^b   Khumalo, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCLOXACILLIN; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CASE REPORT; DRUG SAFETY; EAR; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL DRESSING; INFANTILE HEMANGIOMA; INTUBATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LETTER; LOWER LIP; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRIDOR; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TISSUE INJURY; TRACEHOSOTOM; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; ULCER; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROPRANOLOL;

EID: 70449478421     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2009.03261.x     Document Type: Letter

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