Hemorrhagic Thrombocythemia
1965; American Medical Association; Volume: 192; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1001/jama.1965.03080230118025
ISSN1538-3598
Autores Tópico(s)Platelet Disorders and Treatments
ResumoEVEN BEFORE Nygaard's and Brown's inclusion of a patient with thrombocytosis in their series of five patients with thrombophilia in 1937, 1 scattered reports of patients with thrombohemorrhagic phenomena and increased numbers of circulating platelets had appeared in the English and foreign medical literature under such names as piastrinemia, primary thrombocythemia, essential thrombocythemia, hemorrhagic thrombocythemia, megakaryocytic leukemia, hyperthrombocytic myelosis, and essential thrombophilia. 2 The present report describes an instance of hemorrhagic thrombocythemia studied at the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital of the Medical College of Georgia. It is the first report, to the author's knowledge, to include definition of patient karyotype. The reader is referred to the reviews of hemorrhagic thrombocythemia by Ozer et al 2 and Gunz. 3 Report of a Case A 52-year-old Negro woman (ETMH 018-900) was admitted to the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital for the sixth time on Jan 30, 1964, with the complaint of abdominal
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