Unusual causes of abdominal pain: Sickle cell anemia

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 297-310

  Ahmed, Shahid ^a   Shahid, Rabia K ^b   Russo, Linda A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Acute abdomen; Sickle cell anemia; Sickle cell disease; Sickle cell hepatopathy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; DEFEROXAMINE; FERRITIN; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN S; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDROXYUREA; INFUSION FLUID; NITRIC OXIDE; PENICILLIN G; PIRACETAM; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; ZINC;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROENTERITIS; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IRON OVERLOAD; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LIVER DISEASE; MESENTERIC BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 17044364768     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2004.11.007     Document Type: Review

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