Sickle cell anemia: Severe ischemic colitis responding to conservative management

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 241-243

  Moukarzel, A A ^a,b   Rajaram, M ^a   Sundeep, A ^a   Guarini, L ^a   Feldman, F ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIARRHEA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; OCCULT BLOOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; VEIN OCCLUSION; VOMITING;

EID: 0033994992     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992280003900409     Document Type: Article

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