Giant platelet disorder in a patient with type 2B von Willebrand's disease

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 62-67

  Moll, Stephan ^a,d   Lazarowski, Alicia Rico ^b   White II, Gilbert C ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Giant platelets; Thrombocytopenia; Von Willebrand's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GIANT CELL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

ADULT; BERNARD-SOULIER SYNDROME; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERS; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

EID: 0031964181     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8652(199801)57:1<62::AID-AJH11>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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