Congenital Thrombocytopenic Purpura Treated by Exchange Transfusion
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Congenital Thrombocytopenic Purpura Treated by Exchange Transfusion.
The occurrence of thrombocytopenic purpura in babies born to mothers with idiopathic thrombocytopenia is a well recognized though uncommon clinical entity. Robson and Walker (1951) were able to collect from the literature only 19 definite and nine probable examples of this association. The suggestion of Epstein, Lozner, Cobbey and Davidson (1950) that this type of congenital thrombocytopenic pu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.36.186.210