Raccoon eyes in immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
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Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP): an historical perspective.
See the related ASH 50th Anniversary Review articles under the PLATELETS AND MEGAKARYOCYTOPOIESIS section of the publication ASH 50th Anniversary Reviews: A Salute to the American Society of Hematology. In 1735, two young girls presented to the German physician Paul Gottlieb Werlhof with symptoms of epistaxis and purpura. One young patient had a spontaneous remission, while the second suffered ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Hematology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1658-5127
DOI: 10.4103/1658-5127.131825