Successful management of spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage despite critical thrombocytopenia (platelets < 1000/mm3) due to adolescence-onset idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 199-201

  Yoneoka, Yuichiro ^a   Tokita, K ^a   Yamauchi, J I ^a   Takeda, N ^a   Ohta, H ^a   Shindo, T ^a   Ciurea, A V ^b  

^a Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Emergency; Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; Intracranial hemorrhage; Splenectomy; Ventricular drainage

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PLATELET COUNT; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SPLENECTOMY; THALAMIC DISEASES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 1542380868     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-003-0185-0     Document Type: Article

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