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[Skeletal changes in thalassemia]

H Alaiyan1, H Mittelmeier, N Graf

  • 1Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Homburg/Saar.

Display of this hereditary blood disease (haemoglobinopathy) which is endemic in the Mediterranean area and rarely appearing in our area, characterized by early blood cell destruction and increasing transfusion siderosis of internal and endocrine organs, secondary osteoporosis, epiphyseal growth disturbances and spontaneous fractures by means of two typical cases.

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