Treatment of Life-Threatening Infantile Hemangiomas with Vincristine
- 6 July 1995
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 333 (1) , 69
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199507063330120
Abstract
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 high as 40 percent and may be more than 50 percent if poor prognostic factors are present.1,2 Corticosteroids are the medical treatment of choice, except for resistant cases,3 which are not infrequent.Keywords
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