Leg ulcers in hereditary spherocytosis.
Refractory leg ulcers in two patients healed following splenectomy. Neither patient had the ethnic background or family history of haematological abnormalities to suggest a haemoglobinopathy.
Lawrence
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P
Department of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa.
Aronson
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I
Saxe
N
N
Jacobs
P
P
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D013103:Spherocytosis, Hereditary / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology