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Novel treatment (new drug/intervention; established drug/procedure in new situation)
Successful management of multi-focal hepatic infantile hemangioendothelioma using TACE/surgery followed by maintenance metronomic therapy
  1. Vishal Sondhi1,
  2. Purna Arun Kurkure1,
  3. Tushar Vora1,
  4. Shripad D Banavali1,
  5. S Vishwanathan2,
  6. Seema Medhi3,
  7. Anirudh Kulkarni4,
  8. Sajid Quereshi5,
  9. Brijesh Arora1
  1. 1Pediatric Oncology Department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
  2. 2Pathology Department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  3. 3Radiodiagnosis Department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  4. 4Intervention Radiology Department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  5. 5Surgery Department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Vishal Sondhi, dr.sondhi{at}yahoo.co.in

Summary

Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma (IHE) is a rare angiogenic tumour with diverse clinical presentations and varied course ranging from spontaneous regression to life-threatening complications. The authors report a 2-year boy who presented with respiratory distress and was identified as a case of inoperable multi-focal hepatic IHE. He showed a transient response to trans-arterial-chemo-embolisation and liver resection but had progressive disease despite chemotherapy (prednisolone/vicristine/ifosfamide/cisplatin). Thereafter, he was successfully managed with metronomic therapy using cyclophosphamide and tamoxifen.

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