Infantile hemangioma: Clinical assessment of the involuting phase and implications for management

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 619-624

  Couto, Rafael A ^a   MacLellan, Reid A ^a   Zurakowski, David ^a   Greene, Arin K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866022467     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31825dc129     Document Type: Article

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