PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Elizabeth Barrows
AU  - Barbara Kraj
TI  - Idiopathic Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia Purpura in a 12-year-old boy
AID  - 10.29074/ascls.23.4.201
DP  - 2010 Oct 01
TA  - American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
PG  - 201--204
VI  - 23
IP  - 4
4099  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/23/4/201.short
4100  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/23/4/201.full
SO  - Clin Lab Sci2010 Oct 01; 23
AB  - A 12 year old boy presented to the emergency room with chief complaints of nosebleed and petechiae on lower and upper extremities. The case was adopted for an assignment in a junior level Library Research and Case Studies Presentations course in a distance learning CLS curriculum. The study describes the patient's presentation and differential diagnosis based on laboratory results. The disease background is provided and treatment options are outlined.