Childhood Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Diagnosis and Management

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 393-420

  Blanchette, Victor ^a   Bolton Maggs, Paula ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKR 501; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DANAZOL; DAPSONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ELTROMBOPAG; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; REMIPLISTIM; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCA ALKALOID;

ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CHILL; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEVER; GLUCOSURIA; HEADACHE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW; SERUM SICKNESS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPLENECTOMY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 41149114176     PISSN: 00313955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcl.2008.01.009     Document Type: Review

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