Treatment of Life-Threatening Infantile Hemangiomas with Vincristine

To the Editor: We describe two cases of corticosteroid-resistant, life-endangering hemangioma treated with vincristine: a benign hemangioendothelioma in a patient with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome and a liver hemangioendothelioma. Mortality rates among patients with these kinds of hemangioma can be as...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 1995-07, Vol.333 (1), p.69-69
Hauptverfasser:	Payarols, Jaime Perez, Masferrer, Jose Pardo, Bellvert, Cristina Gomez
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adrenal Cortex Hormones - therapeutic use Drug Resistance Hemangioendothelioma - drug therapy Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Liver Neoplasms - drug therapy Soft Tissue Neoplasms - drug therapy Syndrome Thrombocytopenia Vincristine - therapeutic use
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