Pure red cell aplasia - Report of 11 cases from eastern Nepal

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 405-408

  Sinha, Arvind Kumar ^a   Agarwal, Anshoo ^a   Lakhey, Mamta ^a   Ansari, Javed ^a   Rani, Sudha ^a  

^a B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Hematological malignancies; Hepatitis C; Pure red cell aplasia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEPAL; NEWBORN; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PALLOR; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SEPTICEMIA; THYMOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE MARROW; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 1142298806     PISSN: 03774929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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