Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding: A Case Revealed by Intracranial Haemorrhage
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Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding: A Case Revealed by Intracranial Haemorrhage
Intracranial haemorrhage in early childhood is associated with a wide variety of causes such as trauma, vascular malformations (aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation), haemorrhagic infarction, brain tumours or blood coagulation disorders (congenital or acquired from coagulation factors). Vitamin K deficiency causes blood coagulation disturbances that can lead to intracranial haemorrhage [1]. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Journal of Pediatrics & Neonatology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2474-7521
DOI: 10.19080/ajpn.2017.06.555737