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Keith Sale, MS; Eugene Brown, MD; Lucinda Halstead, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1999;125:1383-1384.

Acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura has an annual incidence of about 4 per 100,000 children and usually presents after a viral illness with new-onset petechiae, easy bruisability, and, occasionally, mucosal bleeding. It usually follows an uneventful course en route to a spontaneous recovery. We describe a patient with chronic otitis media who developed idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura as a postmyringotomy complication.

From the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (Mr Sale and Drs Brown and Halstead), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

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