Association of breast cancer and immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1335-1337

  Ustun, Celalettin ^a   Dainer, Paul ^a   Hendricks, Linda ^a   Bruker, Charles Todd ^a   Burgess, Russell ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 0036872353     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200211000-00020     Document Type: Article

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