Spherocytosis, splenectomy, strokes, and heart attacks

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9092, 1997, Pages 1677-1678

  Schilling, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE;

EID: 0031566815     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)64276-6     Document Type: Article

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