Chronic liver disease in a patient with sickle cell anemia

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-125

  Akyürek Savaş, Nurten ^a   Akbulut, Sabiye ^a   Köseoǧlu, Tankut ^a   Albayrak, Levent ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Sickle cell anemia

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYUREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KUPFFER CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOID; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34147172768     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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