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Controversies in the treatment of pediatric immune thrombocytopenias.
Blood reviews - 1 Mar 2002
Nugent D J
Abstract excerpt
Although pediatric immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is common, there is no consensus on the optimal approach to therapy. Childhood ITP differs in its clinical course and trigger from adult immune thrombocytopenic purpura. There appear to be two clinical phenotypes among children with ITP: children with polyclonal autoantibody production triggered by an external exposure such as infection, and children with...
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