title: Empyema of gallbladder in a child with homozygous sickle-cell disease.
abstract: A 13-year-old boy with homozygous sickle-cell (SS) disease followed from birth in a cohort study of sickle-cell disease developed empyema of the gallbladder after a known 3-year history of gallstones. At this age, gallstones occur in 30% of cohort study children with SS disease but this is the first patient with specific symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Laboratories, Jamaica.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singhal
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Serjeant
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications*; D004653:Empyema / Q000150:complications*; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D008297:Male