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Acute splenic sequestration crisis (ASSC) in an adult patient with β-thalassemia sickle cell disease: a life-threatening complication

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    Spyridon Tsikrikas, Konstantinos Sialevris, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Melanie Deutsch, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Niki Vgontza & Athanasios J. Archimandritis

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Tsikrikas, S., Sialevris, K., Tsochatzis, E. et al. Acute splenic sequestration crisis (ASSC) in an adult patient with β-thalassemia sickle cell disease: a life-threatening complication. Ann Hematol 87, 499–500 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-007-0422-3

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