Factors affecting prepubertal growth in homozygous sickle cell disease

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 502-506

  Singhal, Atul ^a,d   Morris, Joanne ^a   Thomas, Peter ^a   Dover, George ^b   Higgs, Douglas ^c   Serjeant, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fetal haemoglobin; prepubertal growth; sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

EID: 0029682285     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.74.6.502     Document Type: Article

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