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Case Report

PRIMARY HEMORRHAGIC STROKE IN A 12-YEAR-OLD FEMALE WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE AND NORMAL TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER

Michael Wolf New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weil Cornell Medical College, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, New York, NY, USA
, MD,
Carla Cangemi University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine,
, MD,
Richard Drachtman University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology,
, MD &
Margaret Masterson University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology,
, MD
Pages 451-456 | Received 11 Dec 2007, Accepted 07 Feb 2008, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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