Response of infantile hepatic hemangioma to propranolol resistant to high-dose methylprednisolone and interferon-α therapy

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1433-1434

  Sarialioglu, Faik ^a   Erbay, Ayse ^a   Demir, Senay ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; VINCRISTINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; CASE REPORT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE HEPATIC HEMANGIOMA; LETTER; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL;

EID: 78049275938     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22691     Document Type: Letter

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