Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed

Medical literature detailing muscular complications of sickle cell anemia is sparse and limited to a few case-reports. Features consistent with myositis and myonecrosis are often overlooked and patients are inadequately treated, leading to unforeseen complications. We report an interesting case of s...

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Autores principales: Tageja, Nishant, Racovan, Marius, Valent, Jason, Zonder, Jeffrey
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/659031
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author Tageja, Nishant
Racovan, Marius
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description Medical literature detailing muscular complications of sickle cell anemia is sparse and limited to a few case-reports. Features consistent with myositis and myonecrosis are often overlooked and patients are inadequately treated, leading to unforeseen complications. We report an interesting case of sickle cell myonecrosis and review the existing literature on this subject.
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spelling pubmed-28379032010-03-18 Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed Tageja, Nishant Racovan, Marius Valent, Jason Zonder, Jeffrey Case Rep Med Case Report Medical literature detailing muscular complications of sickle cell anemia is sparse and limited to a few case-reports. Features consistent with myositis and myonecrosis are often overlooked and patients are inadequately treated, leading to unforeseen complications. We report an interesting case of sickle cell myonecrosis and review the existing literature on this subject. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2837903/ /pubmed/20300585 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/659031 Text en Copyright © 2010 Nishant Tageja et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title_full Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title_fullStr Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title_full_unstemmed Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title_short Myonecrosis in Sickle Cell Anemia—Overlooked and Underdiagnosed
title_sort myonecrosis in sickle cell anemia—overlooked and underdiagnosed
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837903/
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