Platelet count has no influence on traumatic and bloody lumbar puncture in children undergoing intrathecal chemotherapy [3]

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 347-348

  Ruell, Jacqueline ^a   Karuvattil, Rajesh ^a   Wynn, Robert ^a   Will, Andrew ^a  

^a Pendlebury Children's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Leukaemia; Lumbar puncture; Platelet; Traumatic

Indexed keywords

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE BLEEDING; INJECTION SITE REACTION; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SPINAL PUNCTURE;

EID: 33845896014     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2006.06433.x     Document Type: Letter

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