Emergent sclerotherapy of a newborn with expanding lymphatic malformation causing respiratory distress
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Emergent sclerotherapy of a newborn with expanding lymphatic malformation causing respiratory distress
The present report describes a case of acute airway obstruction in a newborn caused by an expanding hemorrhagic macrocystic lymphatic malformation (LM), which was successfully treated with emergent decompression and interventional radiology-guided sclerotherapy. The use of sclerotherapy for macrocystic LMs has been well described for various indications. The urgent interventional treatment obvi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology Case Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1930-0433
DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2017.01.003