Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and ovarian cancer

European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 539-540

  Chehal, A ^a   Taher, A ^a   Seoud, M ^a   Shamseddine, A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

ITP; Ovarian cancer; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; OVARY TUMOR; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UTERINE TUBE;

CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARIECTOMY; PREDNISONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 0345307197     PISSN: 03922936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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