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Red blood cell abnormalities in hereditary elliptocytosis and their relevance to variable clinical expression.
American journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 1997
Silveira P, Cynober T, Dhermy D, Mohandas N, Tchernia G
Abstract excerpt
Marked variations are seen in the clinical manifestations of hereditary elliptocytosis (HE). To define the cellular alteration(s) that best reflect the variable expression of the disease, we evaluated the pathobiologic features of red blood cells in a series of 18 patients with HE, 15 persons from six families with HE as a result of defects in spectrin, and 3 persons from one family with HE caused by partial or...
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