Critical infantile hepatic hemangioma: Results of a nationwide survey by the Japanese Infantile Hepatic Hemangioma Study Group

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2239-2243

  Kuroda, Tatsuo ^a,b   Kumagai, Masaaki ^a   Nosaka, Shunsuke ^a   Nakazawa, Atsuko ^a   Takimoto, Tetsuya ^a   Hoshino, Ken ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blocker; Hemangioendothelioma; Infantile hepatic hemangioma; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; PROTHROMBIN; VINCRISTINE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRITICAL INFANTILE LIVER HEMANGIOMA; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GALACTOSEMIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATIC ARTERY LIGATION; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HIGH OUTPUT HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT MORTALITY; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; STOMACH DISTENSION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; CARDIAC OUTPUT, HIGH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIGATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PREDNISOLONE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 83455187951     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.09.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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