Successful treatment of orbital hemangioma with propranolol in a 5-year-old girl

Orbit

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-20

  Aletaha, Maryam ^a   Salour, Hossein ^a   Bagheri, Abbas ^a   Raffati, Nasrin ^a   Amouhashemi, Nassim ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hemangioma; Orbit; Propranolol

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFECT; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORBITAL HEMANGIOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PROPRANOLOL;

EID: 84856609202     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: 17445108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01676830.2011.604899     Document Type: Article

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