Trichobezoar: An usual cause for pancreatitis in a patient with sickle cell anemia

Clinical Advances in Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 471-473

  Stein Wexler, Rebecca ^a   Wootton Gorges, Sandra L ^a   Shakibai, Shamim ^a   Graf, Joy ^a   Miller, Susan Milam ^b   Taylor, Douglass ^b   Zwerdling, Theodore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOSTER CARE; GASTROTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TRICHOBEZOAR; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BEZOAR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BEZOARS; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATITIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 33745775705     PISSN: 15430790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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