The role of hemophagocytosis in bone marrow aspirates in the diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 192-194

  Gupta, Abha ^a   Weitzman, Sheila ^a   Abdelhaleem, Mohamed ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PERFORIN; STEROID; SYNTAXIN;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOPENIA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEVER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; INFECTION; LIVER HILUS; LYMPH NODE; MUNC 13 GENE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SPLEEN;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE MARROW CELLS; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 37549037103     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21441     Document Type: Note

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