Extramedullary Hematopoiesis-Related Pleural Effusion: The Case of β-Thalassemia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2037-2043

  Aessopos, Athanassios ^a   Tassiopoulos, Stergios ^a   Farmakis, Dimitrios ^a   Moyssakis, Ioannis ^a   Kati, Maria ^a   Polonifi, Katerina ^a   Tsironi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYUREA; TALC; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD CYTOLOGY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS;

ADULT; ANOXEMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHEST TUBES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOPOIESIS, EXTRAMEDULLARY; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; HYDROXYUREA; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 33646837495     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.01.026     Document Type: Article

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