Current classification and terminology of pediatric vascular anomalies

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 201, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1124-1135

  Kollipara, Ramya ^a   Dinneen, Laura ^a,b   Rentas, Kenny E ^a   Saettele, Megan R ^a   Patel, Suchit A ^a   Rivard, Douglas C ^a,b   Lowe, Lisa H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Hemangiomas; Pediatric imaging; Terminology; Vascular anomalies; Vascular malformations

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HEMANGIOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEMANGIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPOSIFORM HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VASCULAR SURGERY; VASCULAR TUMOR; WATCHFUL WAITING; WIDE EXCISION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEOPLASMS, VASCULAR TISSUE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 84886481922     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.10517     Document Type: Review

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