Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: A 10-year natural history study at the Childrens Hospital of Alabama

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 691-702

  Watts, Raymond G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Southern Hematology and Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ALABAMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHO(D) IMMUNE GLOBULIN;

EID: 5444264630     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280404300802     Document Type: Review

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