© Springer-Verlag Italia 2015Raul Mattassi, Dirk A. Loose and Massimo Vaghi (eds.)Hemangiomas and Vascular Malformations10.1007/978-88-470-5673-2_20 20. Epidemiology of Vascular Malformations Byung-Boong Lee1 , James Laredo1 , Richard F. Neville1 , Young-Wook Kim2 and Young Soo Do3 (1) Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, George Washington…
Fig. 8.1 Congenital orbital rhabdomyosarcoma (a) and leukemia (b) previously misdiagnosed as hemangiomas, received an unsuccessful course of propranolol Diagnosis of hemangiomas is based first on the medical history. Two…
Fig. 11.1 A young girl with a segmental IH and PHACE syndrome (dysplasia of left carotid artery) treated with oral propranolol. (a) At 1 month of age (D0), (b) after…
Fig. 3.1 Case described by Krause in 1862. Elongated left arm with visible pulsating “angiomata,” present since the age of 7. At the age of 45, the arm was amputated…
Malformation Chr region (locus) Gene Inheritance pattern(s) Mutation type(s) Arterial and capillary anomalies Arteriovenous malformations (AVM) ? ? Sporadic ? Ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) 11q23 (AT1) ATM Autosomal recessive Germline Capillary malformation-arteriovenous…
Fig. 4.1 Coagulation cascade and initiation of LIC (coagulopathy) and KMP (platelet trapping). KMP kasabach merrit phenomenom, FDP fibrin degradation product, KHE kaposiform hemangioendothelioma, LIC localized intravascular coagulopathy, TA tufted…
25. Cheung SM, Warman ML, Mulliken JB (1997) Hemangioma in twins. Ann Plast Surg 38:269–274CrossRefPubMed 26. Burns AJ, Kaplan LC, Mulliken JB (1991) Is there an association between hemangioma and…
The first person to transfuse a human being was Professor J Denis who, with the help of a surgeon Mr C Emmerez, gave transfusions of lamb’s blood or calf’s blood…
According to RE Rosenfield (1977, supplemented by personal communication), L Buchbinder, a PhD student of Karl Landsteiner, had discovered Rh polymorphism at some time in the 1930s, but Landsteiner had…
The Effect of Splenectomy Following splenectomy, red cell survival has been found to be normal in humans and rabbits (Miescher 1956a; McFadzean et al. 1958), although slightly prolonged in rats…
