Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone

Our case highlights the possible coexistence of essential thrombocythemia (ET) and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), two pathological entities with opposite clinical and laboratory manifestations. It also underlines how an autoimmune attack has been temporarily able to overcome a neoplastic...

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Autores principales: Carruale, Antonio, Longu, Francesco, Mura, Francesca, Caocci, Giovanni, La Nasa, Giorgio, Fozza, Claudio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3121
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author Carruale, Antonio
Longu, Francesco
Mura, Francesca
Caocci, Giovanni
La Nasa, Giorgio
Fozza, Claudio
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spelling pubmed-76693832020-11-23 Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone Carruale, Antonio Longu, Francesco Mura, Francesca Caocci, Giovanni La Nasa, Giorgio Fozza, Claudio Clin Case Rep Case Reports Our case highlights the possible coexistence of essential thrombocythemia (ET) and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), two pathological entities with opposite clinical and laboratory manifestations. It also underlines how an autoimmune attack has been temporarily able to overcome a neoplastic clone. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7669383/ /pubmed/33235743 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3121 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Carruale, Antonio
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Mura, Francesca
Caocci, Giovanni
La Nasa, Giorgio
Fozza, Claudio
Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title_full Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title_fullStr Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title_full_unstemmed Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title_short Occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: How the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
title_sort occurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a patient with essential thrombocythemia: how the immune system can overcome a neoplastic clone
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3121
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