Predictive value of response to steroid therapy on response to splenectomy in children with immune thrombocytopenic purpura

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-648

  Hollander, Lindsay L ^a   Leys, Charles M ^a   Weil, Brent R ^a   Rescorla, Frederick J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DANAZOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054123288     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.07.063     Document Type: Article

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