A patient with pure red cell aplasia and expansion of the peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cell population is described. Despite normal absolute and differential leukocyte counts, NK cells were increased at diagnosis and at relapse. Furthermore, these cells were not morphologically recognizable
Absence of natural killer cells in a child with pure red blood cell aplasia
โ Scribed by Ayala Abrahamov; Michael Schlesinger
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 449 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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