Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura 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: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.36.190.649