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Bone marrow failure: a child is not just a small adult (but an adult can have a childhood disease).
Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program - 1 Jan 2005
Alter Blanche P
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Aplastic anemia may be inherited or acquired. The distinction between these lies not in the age of the patient, but in the clinical and laboratory diagnoses. Adult hematologists must consider adult presentations of the inherited disorders, in order to avoid incorrect management of their patients. Physicians for adult patients must also realize that children with inherited disorders now survive to transition into...
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