[Blood platelets in children too few and too large: the giant platelet syndromes].

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In 4 children, two boys aged 15 and two girls aged 17 years, thrombocytopenia was found with thrombocyte size of about the diameter of an erythrocyte, so called giant platelets. In 3 of the patients no signs of increased bleeding tendency were present, while the fourth had bruises, small stature and subnormal hearing. The 50-year-old father of 2 of the patients (a brother and sister) had thrombocytopenia with...

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