Significance of anti-neutrophil antibody in chronic benign
neutropenia in Chinese children
Sophie HY Lai,1* Queenie WS See1,
Jaime S Rosa Duque, MD1,2 Daniel KL
Cheuk1,3, Dr Jenny CY Ho4, Dr
Stephen KF Cheung4, Mr Patrick Chu4,
Pamela Lee1,2,3, Dr Janette SY
Kwok4, Professor SY Ha1,2,3#
1Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong,
2Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
3Department of Paediatrics, Hong Kong Children’s
Hospital, Hong Kong
4Division of Transplantation and Immunogenetics,
Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
#Correspondence
to:
Prof Shau-Yin Ha, Consultant, Honorary Professor,Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, LKS Faculty
of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Children’s
Hospital, Hong Kong. Email:
syha@hku.hk Tel: (852) 5741-3204
Fax: (852) 3512-7598 Address: Doctor’s Office, 9/F, Tower B, Hong Kong
Children’s Hospital, 1 Shing Cheong Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong
Kong
Text word count: 2944
Abstract Word Count: 247
Brief running title: Utility of anti-neutrophil antibody in
neutropenia
Key words: immune cytopenia, autoimmune neutropenia, chronic
benign, neutropenia, paediatric haematology/oncology, anti-neutrophil
antibody
References: 15
Table(s): 1 table
Figure (s): 2 figures, 1 supplementary figure
*, denotes first author
names in any order they wish when citing this work
#, denotes corresponding author