Clinical and laboratory predictors of cholelithiasis in patients with sickle cell anaemia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 347-350

  Omonge, E ^a   Ogutu, E O ^b   Aluoch, J R ^b  

^a Kiambu District Hospital   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

HEALTH CARE; MONITORING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPER ELECTROPHORESIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLELITHIASIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT;

KENYA;

EID: 0031770675     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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