Spontaneous splenic rupture in a patient with factor XIII deficiency and a novel mutation

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-114

  Khalife, Hassan ^a   Muwakkit, Samar ^a   Al Moussawi, Hayfa ^b   Dabbous, Ibrahim ^a   Khoury, Ruby ^a   Peyvandi, Flora ^c   Abboud, Miguel R ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Sheikh Ragheb Hospital   (Lebanon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clotting factor related research; Coagulation; Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; STOP CODON; TREATMENT DURATION;

CHILD; FACTOR XIII; FACTOR XIII DEFICIENCY; HEMORRHAGIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC RUPTURE;

EID: 36849064208     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20786     Document Type: Article

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