Hematological profile of sickle cell disease from South Gujarat, India

Hematology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 22-23

  Rao, Sanjeev Shyam ^a   Goyal, Jagdish Prasad ^a   Raghunath, S V ^a   Shah, Vijay B ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Children; Hematological profile; Sickle cell disease; South gujarat

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CELL VOLUME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STEADY STATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84863566966     PISSN: 20388322     EISSN: 20388330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/hr.2012.e8     Document Type: Article

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