A randomised comparison of deferasirox versus deferoxamine for the treatment of transfusional iron overload in sickle cell disease
✍ Scribed by Elliott Vichinsky; Onyinye Onyekwere; John Porter; Paul Swerdlow; James Eckman; Peter Lane; Beatrice Files; Kathryn Hassell; Patrick Kelly; Felicia Wilson; Françoise Bernaudin; Gian Luca Forni; Iheanyi Okpala; Catherine Ressayre-Djaffer; Daniele Alberti; Jaymes Holland; Peter Marks; Ellen Fung; Roland Fischer; Brigitta U. Mueller; Thomas Coates; the Deferasirox in Sickle Cell Investigators
- Book ID
- 108674106
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 547 KB
- Volume
- 136
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1048
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