Teaching cases from the Royal Marsden and St Mary's Hospitals. Case 18: Severe anaemia and thrombocytopenia with red cell fragmentation

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 433-435

  Sampson, Rebecca E ^b   Abdalla, S H ^b   Bain, Barbara J ^b   Catovsky, D ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Myelodysplastic syndromes; Red cell fragments; Thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE FRAGILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0032410375     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10428199809059239     Document Type: Article

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