Rib infarcts and acute chest syndrome in sickle cell diseases
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Rib infarcts and acute chest syndrome in sickle cell diseases.
In the absence of evidence for pneumonia or pulmonary embolus, primary pulmonary infarction has been assumed to be the cause of the syndrome of chest pain, fever, and pulmonary infiltrate on chest X-ray that commonly complicates sickle cell anaemia. To find out whether the syndrome might be due to rib infarction, 99mTc-diphosphonate bone scans were done. In the eleven episodes thus investigated...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)92525-7