Acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura presenting a high serum level of immunoglobulin E and eosinophilia in an elderly patient

Journal of Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 93-96

  Kurabayashi, Hitoshi ^a   Yoshida, Yasushi ^a   Handa, Hiroshi ^a   Akiba, Toru ^a   Itoh, Katsuhiko ^b   Tamura, Jun'ichi ^b   Kubota, Kazuo ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly patient; Eosinophilia; IgE; ITP

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; REMISSION; STEROID THERAPY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 0031904291     PISSN: 00257850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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