Biliary surgery in patients with sickle-cell anaemia.
The results of biliary surgery are reported in 12 consecutive patients with homozygous sickle-cell (SS) disease treated over a two-year period at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. Recommendations for the surgical management of these patients are outlined.
Duncan
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Department of Surgery, U.W.I., Jamaica.
De Paz
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Serjeant
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies