Review of radiologic skeletal changes in Thalassemia

Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 123-126

  Aziz Bedair, Elsaid M ^b   Helmy, Abbas N E ^b   Yakout, Khaled ^a   Soliman, Ashraf T ^a  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^b MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Radiology; Skeleton; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE DISEASE; BONE DYSPLASIA; BONE MARROW; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FACIAL BONE; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; PARANASAL SINUS; REVIEW; SKULL; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; VERTEBRA BODY;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; IRON CHELATING AGENTS;

EID: 58149496183     PISSN: 15654753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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