Any talk about thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (T.T.P.) should begin with the paper by Dr. Moschowitz from New York [l]. In 1925, he described a febrile illness with anemia and hyaline thrombosis of small terminal arterioles and capillaries. Up to that point it was an undescribed disease, and th
The thrombotic microangiopathies
β Scribed by Lawrence Copelovitch; Bernard S. Kaplan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-041X
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