Splenectomy for massive splenic infarction unmasks paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 193-196

  Tsatalas, Costas ^a   Margaritis, Dimitris ^a   Pantelidou, Despina ^a   Kotsianidis, Ioannis ^a   Karayiannakis, Anastasios J ^a   Spanoudakis, Emanuel ^a   Kartasis, Zafiris ^a   Kaloutsi, Vasiliki ^b   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Manavis, Ioannis ^a   Bourikas, George ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria; Splenectomy; Splenic infarction; Splenic vein thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DICOUMAROL; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; THROMBOPHILIA; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; HEMOGLOBINURIA, PAROXYSMAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345168158     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074224     Document Type: Article

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