Autoimmune haemolysis as an unusual cause of anaemia in von Recklinghausen's disease

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 337-339

  Tekin, F ^a   Ozutemiz, O ^a   Carcurgan, S ^a   Ilter, T ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CAFE AU LAIT SPOT; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COOMBS TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LENTIGO; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE GLIOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SHORT STATURE;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; CAFE-AU-LAIT SPOTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCUTANEOUS SYNDROMES; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; PREDNISOLONE; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 6444219648     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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