Resolution of chronic severe refractory thrombocytopenia after treatment of hypothyroidism

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 995-996

  Bowles, K M ^a   Turner, G E ^a   Wimperis, J Z ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID; THYROXINE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY THROMBOCYTOPENIA; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 4444314867     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2004.016543     Document Type: Article

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