Mediastinal nodal tuberculosis presenting as immune thrombocytopenia [3]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 465-466

  Talbot, S ^a   Dowling, A ^a   Dowling, J P ^a   Fuller, A ^a   Schwarz, M ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISONIAZID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MEDIASTINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0031716969     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1998.tb02084.x     Document Type: Letter

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