Successful treatment with interferon alfa in infiltrating angiolipoma: a case presenting with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

C Akyüz; S Emir; M Büyükpamukçu; N Büyükpamukçu; M Cağlar; G Kale; U Calişkan

doi:10.1136/adc.88.1.67

Successful treatment with interferon alfa in infiltrating angiolipoma: a case presenting with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome

Arch Dis Child. 2003 Jan;88(1):67-8. doi: 10.1136/adc.88.1.67.

Authors

C Akyüz¹, S Emir, M Büyükpamukçu, N Büyükpamukçu, M Cağlar, G Kale, U Calişkan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.

Abstract

We report a case of infiltrating angiolipoma who presented with a large mass on the shoulder and the signs of Kasabach-Merritt syndrome. She improved dramatically within one month and the mass completely disappeared after six months of interferon treatment.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Angiolipoma / complications
Angiolipoma / diagnosis
Angiolipoma / drug therapy*
Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use*
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Interferon alpha-2
Interferon-alpha / therapeutic use*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Purpura, Thrombocytopenic / complications*
Purpura, Thrombocytopenic / pathology
Recombinant Proteins
Shoulder / pathology

Substances

Antineoplastic Agents
Interferon alpha-2
Interferon-alpha
Recombinant Proteins