title: Transfusion medicine illustrated. A weapon of mass destruction: the spleen in immune thrombocytopenia.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Fboctor@path.UAB.edu
authors.forename: Fouad N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Boctor
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016553:Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013154:Spleen / Q000473:pathology*