Peripheral neuropathy in thalassemia

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 358-363

  Sawaya, Raja A ^a   Zahed, Laila ^a   Taher, Ali ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FERRITIN; SIDEROPHORE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENDER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; THALASSEMIA; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INNERVATION; LEBANON; LIMB; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERONEUS NERVE; REACTION TIME; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEFEROXAMINE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERONEAL NERVE; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SIDEROPHORES; SURAL NERVE; THALASSEMIA; TIBIAL NERVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 33751329572     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2006.358     Document Type: Article

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