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Abdominal Ultrasonography in β-Thalassemia

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Radiology of Thalassemia

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Children with β-thalassemia transfused and followed up regularly are prone to develop symptoms of iron overload early in life. Parenchymal iron loading, largely in the form of ferritin, results in widespread hemosiderosis, responsible for tissue damage in most of the abdominal organs.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Areteion Hospital, 115 28, Athens, Greece

    Constantin Papavasiliou  & Theophanis Cambouris  & 

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, School of Medicine, 115 28, Athens, Greece

    Phaedon Fessas

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Papanicolaou, A., Gourtsoyiannis, N.C. (1989). Abdominal Ultrasonography in β-Thalassemia. In: Papavasiliou, C., Cambouris, T., Fessas, P. (eds) Radiology of Thalassemia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72587-6_10

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