Purpuric phototherapy-induced eruption in transfused neonates: Relation to transient porphyrinemia

Pediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 360-364

  Paller, Amy S ^a,c   Eramo, Lynne R ^a   Farrell, Elaine E ^a   Millard, Dietra D ^a   Honig, Paul J ^b   Cunningham, Bari B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Neonate; Photo therapy; Porphyrins; Purpura

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HEMOLYTIC DISEASE; NEWBORN MONITORING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; SKIN BIOPSY;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, CONGENITAL; BIOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COPROPORPHYRINS; ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; NECROSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PORPHYRINS; PREGNANCY; PROTOPORPHYRINS; PURPURA; RADIATION DOSAGE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 0030986540     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.100.3.360     Document Type: Article

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