Prevention of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in thalassemia patients by partial rather than total splenectomy

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 382-386

  Sheikha, Anwar K ^a   Salih, Ziyan T ^a   Kasnazan, Kalandar H ^b   Khoshnaw, Mohammad K ^b   Al Maliki, Talal ^c   Al Azraqi, Tarek A ^c   Zafer, Mubarak H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Sulaimania Teaching Hospital   (Iraq)

^c KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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