Acute Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura — Management in Childhood
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Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in childhood.
Purpura is a relatively common symptom in childhood and may be due to a variety of causes. A platelet count enables one to exclude the nonthrombocytopenic variety, but more elaborate investigations are needed to exclude other primary conditions which are often associated with thrombocytopenia, e.g. leukaemia. There remains a group of patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and it is w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Blood
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1528-0020,0006-4971
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v89.4.1464