Safety of lumbar puncture for adults with acute leukemia and restrictive prophylactic platelet transfusion

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 570-573

  Vavricka, Stephan R ^a   Walter, Roland B ^b   Irani, Sarosh ^a   Halter, Joerg ^a   Schanz, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute leukemia; Lumbar puncture; Platelets; Safety; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CANCER CENTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGISM; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL PUNCTURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0141505900     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-003-0707-0     Document Type: Review

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