Transcranial doppler ultrasonography in beta-thalassemia major patients without and with thrombocytosis

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shariat, Abdolhamid ^a   Nazeri, Masoume ^a   Foroughi, Amin Abolhasani ^b   Karimi, Mehran ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Beta thalassemia; Doppler; Thrombocytosis; Transcranial; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 84875294711     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.4606     Document Type: Article

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