Acquired pure megakaryocytic aplasia: A separate haematological disease entity or a syndrome with multiple causes?

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 451-454

  Felderbauer, P ^a   Ritter, P R ^a   Mattern, D ^b   Schmitz, F ^a   Bulut, K ^a   Ansorge, N ^a   Schmitt Graeff, A ^b   Schmidt, W E ^a   Baier, J E ^a  

^a ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenic purpura; Acquired pure amegakaryocytic aplasia; Myelodysplasia

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ACQUIRED PURE MEGAKARYOCYTIC APLASIA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APLASIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INFUSION; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW DISEASES; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTES; PURPURA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2542512303     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2004.00241.x     Document Type: Article

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