Transcranial Doppler scanning and the assessment of stroke risk in children with haemoglobin sickle cell disease

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Deane, Colin R ^a   Goss, David ^a   O'Driscoll, Sandra ^a   Mellor, Sarah ^a   Pohl, Keith R E ^b   Dick, Moira C ^a   Height, Sue E ^a   Rees, David C ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b EVELINA LONDON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STROKE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 38849161561     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.125799     Document Type: Article

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