THE observation of a newborn infant with widespread petechiae and thrombocytopenia born to a mother who had had rubella during the 1964 epidemic stimulated us to seek other newborn and older children ...

Many people spot tiny red dots on their skin and wonder what they mean. These marks often appear without warning on areas ...

The course of untreated idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura usually takes one of two forms, acute or chronic; the former is usually self-limited, and the latter is self-perpetuating. Hirsch and ...

Also known as pigmented purpuric dermatoses, benign pigmented purpura (BPP) include a spectrum of disorders characterized clinically by a purpura that morphologically appears to have distinct forms ...

Last week Editor Morris Fishbein, who is particularly interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were ...