Thrombocytopenia with rituximab treatment-splenomegaly as the risk factor

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-96

  Adiyodi, Jagdish ^a   Thachil, Jecko ^b   Hawkins, Stephen ^b   Hincks, Ian ^a   Woodcock, Barrie E ^a   Salim, Rahuman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMBUCIL; D DIMER; HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; AGED; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPENIA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPLEEN PAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71349083057     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-009-0768-9     Document Type: Letter

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