A teenage boy with late onset hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis with predominant neurologic disease and perforin deficiency

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1070-1072

  Beaty, Andrew D ^a,b   Weller, Christin ^a   Levy, Beth ^a   Vogler, Carole ^a   Ferguson, William S ^a,b   Bicknese, Alma ^a   Knutsen, Alan P ^a,b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epstein Barr virus (EBV); Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH); Perforin deficiency

Indexed keywords

PERFORIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPENIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERFORIN;

EID: 41849123903     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21438     Document Type: Article

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