'Acute Chest Syndrome' in Adults With Sickle Cell Anemia: Microbiology, Treatment, and Prevention

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 67-69

  Charache, Samuel ^a   Scott, Jean C ^a   Charache, Patricia ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; LUNG INFARCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; THORAX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018601261     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1979.03630380047016     Document Type: Article

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