A difficult diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma due to immune thrombocytopenia

We report a rare clinical presentation of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma with immune thrombocytopenia. Diagnostic biopsy of the abdominal mass was performed after administration of intravenous immunoglobulins, steroids, and platelet transfusion. Concomitant thrombocytopenia complicated the whole diagnos...

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Autores principales: Marino, Silvia, Di Cataldo, Andrea, Magro, Gaetano, D'Amico, Salvatore, La Spina, Milena, Di Benedetto, Vincenzo, Meli, Mariaclaudia, Moscheo, Carla, Russo, Giovanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4377251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.176
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Sumario:We report a rare clinical presentation of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma with immune thrombocytopenia. Diagnostic biopsy of the abdominal mass was performed after administration of intravenous immunoglobulins, steroids, and platelet transfusion. Concomitant thrombocytopenia complicated the whole diagnosis work up and the initial management of neoplasia.

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