Magnetic resonance angiography in children with sickle cell disease and abnormal transcranial Doppler ultrasonography findings enrolled in the STOP study

Blood

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2822-2826

  Abboud, Miguel R ^a   Cure, Joel ^b   Granger, Suzanne ^b   Gallagher, Dianne ^b   Hsu, Lewis ^b   Wang, Winfred ^b   Woods, Gerald ^b   Berman, Brian ^b   Brambilla, Don ^b   Pegelow, Charles ^b   Lewin, Jonathan ^b   Zimmermann, Robert A ^b   Adams, Robert J ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STENOSIS; STROKE;

EID: 12144290116     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2003-06-1972     Document Type: Article

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