Association between adenotonsillar hypertrophy, tonsillitis and painful crises in sickle cell disease
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Association between adenotonsillar hypertrophy, tonsillitis and painful crises in sickle cell disease.
OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of obstructive adenotonsillar hypertrophy in children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia; to investigate possible association between the presence of more than five episodes of tonsillitis in the last 12 months and episodes of painful crises in the same period; and to compare the mean annual hemoglobin level in children and adolescents with and withou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1898