Early onset of cerebrovascular accident in a thalassemia major child

Tunisie Medicale

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 372-

  Dhouib, N ^a   Mellouli, F ^a   Ouederni, M ^a   Yahiaoui, S ^a   Guermazi, S ^a   Nagi, S ^a   Bejaoui, M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer; Child; Children; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Mammography; Osteoporosis; Prevention; Prognosis; Schizophrenia; Screening; Surgery; Treatment; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FERRITIN; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PROTEIN S;

BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLENOMEGALY; THALASSEMIA MAJOR;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE;

EID: 77952971466     PISSN: 00414131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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