FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 350:1764-1775 April 22, 2004 Number 17 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text PDF PDA Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited E-mail When Letters Appear PubMed Citation

Presentation of Case

A newborn girl was transferred to this hospital because of a large cutaneous lesion, thrombocytopenia, and anemia.

The infant had been born at another hospital to a 33-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 1). She was delivered by cesarean section at 37 weeks' gestation. The Apgar scores were 9 at one minute and 9 at five minutes. The weight was 2470 g. A large, dark-red cutaneous lesion, 2.5 mm thick, covered much of the child's right hemithorax. Physical examination disclosed no other abnormalities. The oxygen saturation was 84 percent while the infant breathed ambient air. She was placed in a hood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Distinction between Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma and Infantile Hemangioma

Other Congenital Vascular and Nonvascular Lesions

Abnormalities in Coagulation Associated with Vascular Lesions

Other Vascular Tumors Associated with the Kasabach–Merritt Phenomenon

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. John B. Mulliken's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Final Diagnosis

Discussion of Management

Thrombocytopenia in Infants with the Kasabach–Merritt Phenomenon

Treatment of Kaposiform Hemangioendothelioma

Mortality and Morbidity

Source Information

From the Division of Plastic Surgery, Craniofacial Center, and Vascular Anomalies Center, Children's Hospital (J.B.M.); the Department of Radiology (S.A.), Pediatric Service (R.A.B.E.), and the Department of Pathology, Division of Dermatopathology (M.C.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Surgery (J.B.M.), Radiology (S.A.), Pediatrics (R.A.B.E.), and Dermatology (M.C.M.), Harvard Medical School — all in Boston.

This article has been cited by other articles:

• (2006). Abdominal Plaque in a 10-Day-Old Boy--Diagnosis. Arch Dermatol 142: 641-646 [Full Text]