Does familial predisposition exist in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura?

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1294-1295

  Naithani, Rahul ^a   Kumar, Rajat ^a   Mahapatra, M ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROPERDIN; STEROID;

BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 42349094808     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.21502     Document Type: Letter

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