TY - JOUR
T1 - Neonatal hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma causing cardiac failure and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
AU - Wan, Phyllis
AU - Susman, Jonathan
AU - Kandel, Jessica
AU - Jan, Dominique
AU - Jerome, Elizabeth Heidi
AU - Parravicini, Elvira
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Even with advance prenatal diagnostic tools, differentiating among specific types of hepatic masses continues to challenge many physicians. Here, we report a neonate with life-threatening hepatic mass, cardiac failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, which clinically resembled hepatic hemangioma. A hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma was detected by postmortem pathology.
AB - Even with advance prenatal diagnostic tools, differentiating among specific types of hepatic masses continues to challenge many physicians. Here, we report a neonate with life-threatening hepatic mass, cardiac failure, and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, which clinically resembled hepatic hemangioma. A hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma was detected by postmortem pathology.
KW - Cardiac failure
KW - Dic
KW - Embolization
KW - Mesenchymal hamartoma
KW - Neonatal hepatic mass
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U2 - 10.1055/s-0029-1220783
DO - 10.1055/s-0029-1220783
M3 - Article
C2 - 19370509
AN - SCOPUS:70349453893
SN - 0735-1631
VL - 26
SP - 601
EP - 604
JO - American Journal of Perinatology
JF - American Journal of Perinatology
IS - 8
ER -