Isolated thrombocytopenia: Should we routinely screen for antiphospholipid antibodies?

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 281-284

  Dasanu, Constantin A ^a,b   Codreanu, Ion ^c  

^a SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Manchester Memorial Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 79957827778     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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