Asymptomatic cerebral bleeds in patients with aplastic anemia

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1187-1191

  Sharma, Sudhir ^a   Malhotra, Pankaj ^a   Lal, Vivek ^a   Singh, Paramjeet ^a   Varma, Neelam ^a   Varma, Subhash ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aplastic Anemia (AA); Cerebral microbleeds (CMB); Intracranial hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DANAZOL; HEMOGLOBIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRADIENT ECHO NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BRAIN; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864967589     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-012-1448-8     Document Type: Article

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