Quinine-Induced Thrombocytopenia Complicating Eyelid Surgery

1 September 1987

journal article
case report
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 105 (9) , 1176
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1987.01060090034016

Abstract

To the Editor. —A vast number of drugs have been reported to cause thrombocytopenia. Among these drugs, quinine and quinidine have been the most thoroughly documented and together account for the largest number of cases.¹ In the present report, we describe a patient whose initial manifestation of quinine

Keywords

EDITOR
COMPLICATING EYELID
THROMBOCYTOPENIA COMPLICATING
INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA
SURGERY
QUINIDINE
DOCUMENTED
CASES.1

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