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Splenic Complications of Sickle Cell Anemia and the Role of Splenectomy

Sickle cell disease is one of the common hemoglobinopathies in the world. It can affect any part of the body and one of the most common and an early organ to be affected in SCA is the spleen. It is commonly enlarged during the first decade of life but then undergoes progressive atrophy leading to au...

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Autor principal: Al-Salem, Ahmed H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scholarly Research Network 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3200071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084706
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2011/864257