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. 2019 Nov 19:6:2374289519886042.
doi: 10.1177/2374289519886042. eCollection 2019 Jan-Dec.

Educational Case: The Bleeding Patient

Isaac E McCool  1 , Jeannie M Muir  2 , Barbara E C Knollmann-Ritschel  2
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Educational Case: The Bleeding Patient

Isaac E McCool et al. Acad Pathol. .

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. 1.

Keywords: activated partial thromboplastin time; coagulation disorder; diagnostic medicine; hematology; hemophilia; pathology competencies; platelet count; prothrombin time.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Patient’s pedigree which is typical of a pedigree of a patient with hemophilia. The blue arrow indicates the patient in this case.
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