Giant Vascular Tumors and Thrombocytopenia

Ligation of the hepatic artery in the treatment of heart failure due to hepatic haemangiomatosis

“…In our patient there was no shrinking of the skin lesions or evidence of improvement during the period of administration of prednisone but the dose given was lower than that used by the other groups. Radiotherapy has been reported (Wilson and Haggard, 1960) to be of some benefit in both skin and hepatic haemangiomatosis but the combination of prednisone and radiotherapy failed to benefit this patient as assessed clinically and also by objective criteria, including liver scan and chest radiographs.…”

Kasabach‐Merritt Syndrome

“…and visceral (16.17), and retroperitoneal (18) hemangiomas without associated cutaneous lesions. Rare tumor types are multiple glomus tumors (19) and angiosarcomas (20,21). The coaguiopathy may not necessarily coincide with the appearance of the vascular proliferation.…”

Giant Haemangioma in the Newborn

“…However, a number of infants with a giant haemangioma complicated by thrombocytopenia have been recorded. Forty-two such case reports were analyzed and an overall picture of this type of haemangioma has been obtained, (Kasabach and Merritt, 1940;Rhodes and Borelli, 1944;Silver, Aggeler and Crane, 1948;Bogin and Thurmond, 195 1 ;Southard, De Sanctis and Waldron, 195 1 ;Franklin and Williamson, 1953;Weissman and Tagnon, 1953;Good, Carnazzo and Good, 1955;Meeks, Jay and Heaton, 1955;Petit, Schweisguth, Cotoni and Chapuis, 1957;Scherz, Louro and Geppert, 1958;Dargeon, Amparo and Pack, 1959;Johnson, 1959;Paletta, Walker and King, 1959;Levine, Holcomb and Lutzner, 1960;Nelson, 1960;Wilson and Haggard, 1960;Boon and Boon, 1961;Inglefield, Tisdale and Fairchild, 1961 ;James and Tuttle, 1961;Valentine, 1961;Wallerstein, 1961;Hill and Longino, 1962;Sutherland and Clark, 1962;Atkins, Wolff and Sitarz, 1963;Kemeny, Adler and Nagy, 1963;Kontras, Green, King and Duran, 1963;Pree, 1963).…”