Menorrhagia due to abnormalities of the platelet function: Evaluation of two young patients

Pediatrics International

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-108

  Aydinok, Yesim ^a   Egemen, Ayten ^a   Balkan, Can ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Menorrhagia; Platelet function disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; DESMOPRESSIN; FERROUS SULFATE; NORETISTERON; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROMOLUTE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BERNARD SOULIER DISEASE; BLEEDING; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; ECCHYMOSIS; EPISTAXIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MENORRHAGIA; MENSTRUATION; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE STRUCTURE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BERNARD-SOULIER SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MENORRHAGIA; RECURRENCE; THROMBASTHENIA; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

EID: 33846460012     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.2007.02304.x     Document Type: Article

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