Post-chickenpox purpura fulminans with a transitory descent of the C and S proteins;Purpura fulminans postvaricela con deficit transitorio de proteina C y proteina S

Anales Espanoles de Pediatria

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 412-414

  Angeles Fernandez G ^a,b   Villanueva Lamas, J ^a   Cambra, F J ^a   Toll, Ma T ^a   Palomeque Rico, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C; VITRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; FEMALE; FULMINATING PURPURA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTHROMBIN TIME; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHICKENPOX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH;

EID: 0032174862     PISSN: 03024342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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