Acute thrombocytopenia associated with preexisting ulcerative colitis successfully treated with colectomy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-92

  Hisada, Takeshi ^a   Miyamae, Yohei ^a   Mizuide, Masafumi ^a   Shibusawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Iida, Tomohiro ^a   Masuo, Takashige ^a   Okada, Shuichi ^a   Sagawa, Toshihiko ^b   Ishizuka, Tamotsu ^a   Kusano, Motoyasu ^a   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ota General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Colectomy; Extraintestinal manifestation; Immune thrombocytopenic purpura; Thrombocytopenia; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AUTOANTIBODY; MESALAZINE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID; THROMBOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; PANCREATITIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; SULFASALAZINE;

EID: 33344466237     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1465     Document Type: Article

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