Liver transplant for the treatment of giant hepatic hemangioma

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1436-1437

  Bandeira Ferraz, Álvaro Antônio ^a,d   Antunes Sette, Marcelo José ^b   Maia, Marcelo ^b   Pessoa de Almeida Lopes, Edmundo ^a   Gonsalves Godoy, Michelle Maria ^c   Tavares da Silva Petribú, André ^c   Meira, Marconi ^c   da Rosa Borges, Otávio ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Regional de Sao Jose   (Brazil)

^c Liver Transplant Group   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD CLOTTING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; KASABACH MERRITT SYNDROME; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8844248616     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20250     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Hochwald SN, Blungart LH. Giant hemangiomas with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome: Is the appropriate treatment enucleation or liver transplantation? HPB Surg 2000;11:413-419.
2. Kumashiro, Y, Kasahara M, Nomoto K, Kawai M, Sasaki K, Kiuchi T, Tanaka K. Living donor liver transplantation for giant hepatic hemangioma with Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome with a posterior segment graft. Liver Transpl 2002;8:721-724.