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The role of hydroxyurea in decreasing the occurrence of vasso-occulusive crisis in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease at King Saud Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Fauzia R. Azmet, Fawaz Al-Kasim, Walid M. Alashram and Khawar Siddique
Saudi Medical Journal January 2020, 41 (1) 46-52; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24698

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vol. 41 no. 1 46-52
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24698
PubMed 
31915794
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 15, 2019
  • Accepted October 29, 2019
  • Published online January 1, 2020.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Fauzia R. Azmet, MRCPCH, SFPHO⇑,
  2. Fawaz Al-Kasim, FRCP, CFPHO,
  3. Walid M. Alashram, MBBS, DCH and
  4. Khawar Siddique, MSc, MBA
  1. From the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fauzia Azmet, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: fauziarehmanazmet{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7643-8653
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