A girl with leukocytosis and a worsening rash from birth

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2557-2566

  Wolfe, Lawrence C ^a   Weinstein, Howard J ^b,c   Ferry, Judith A ^b,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN;

CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TRANSIENT MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; TRISOMY 21; TUBERCULIN TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOPSY; BLAST CELL CRISIS; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETICS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOSAICISM;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOPSY; BLAST CRISIS; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOWN SYNDROME; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MOSAICISM; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS;

EID: 0038130594     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030012     Document Type: Review

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