Is this immune thrombocytopenic purpura?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-81

  Thachil, Jecko ^a   Hall, Georgina W ^b  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENACETIN; PREDNISOLONE; QUININE; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RIFAMPICIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VALPROIC ACID;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE PAIN; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY HISTORY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAVEL; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; PAIN; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; TRAVEL;

EID: 38049132282     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.095547     Document Type: Review

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