The Kasabach Merritt syndrome consists of thrombocytopenla, mlcroangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and a localized consumption coagulopathy that develops within the abnormal vascular channels of a hemangloma. In general, these patients demonstrate only mild ebnormalltles of screening clotting tests, but
MRI and CT of a haemangioma of the mandible in Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
โ Scribed by C. Panow; C. Berger; U. Willi; A. Valavanis; E. Martin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 428 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-3940
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