Thrombocytopenic Purpura Associated with Tuberculous Splenomegaly and Tuberculosis of the Bone Marrow

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WHEN splenectomy in thrombocytopenic patients has on occasion revealed the tuberculous origin of a splenic enlargement, the post-operative results have been dramatic. Surgical intervention has removed both a fatal tuberculoma and a serious blood dyscrasia.1 , 2 Further knowledge of this apparently rare combination will probably show that such a surgical "cure" is not to be anticipated in every case because of developments such as those reported below — namely, the association of "primary" tuberculosis of the spleen, thrombocytopenic purpura and a widespread tuberculosis of the bone marrow. We are unable to find a similar grouping of such lesions, which almost certainly . . .

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