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Review
. 2007 May;17(2):269-80.
doi: 10.1016/j.nic.2007.03.011.

Overt and incomplete (silent) cerebral infarction in sickle cell anemia: diagnosis and management

Wing-Yen Wong  1 , Darleen R Powars
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Review

Overt and incomplete (silent) cerebral infarction in sickle cell anemia: diagnosis and management

Wing-Yen Wong et al. Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2007 May.

Abstract

Cerebral vasculopathy in sickle cell anemia (HbSS) is manifest clinically as cerebral infarction and intracranial hemorrhage. The type of stroke, ischemic or hemorrhagic, is age specific with distinct differences in outcomes. Cerebral infarction with or without clinical stroke begins during early childhood and rarely causes death immediately.

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