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Continuous Manual Exchange Transfusion for Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: An Efficient Method to Avoid Iron Overload
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Published on: March 14, 2017

Zinc supplementation and growth in sickle cell disease

A S Prasad, Z T Cossack

    Annals of Internal Medicine
    |March 1, 1984
    PubMed

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