Kasabach-merritt syndrome case reports of successful treatment with partial tumor resection and vincristine chemotherapy

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-363

  Shen, Weiming ^a   Cui, Jie ^a   Chen, Jianbin ^a   Zou, Jijun ^a   Ji, Yi ^a   Chen, Haini ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Kasabach Merritt syndrome; Partial tumor resection; Vincristine chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEWBORN; PLASTIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VINCRISTINE;

EID: 77957973786     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3181bfba1e     Document Type: Review

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