Diagnosis of patients with hemoglobinopathies including α-thalassemia in a laboratory with limited resources
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of α-thalassemia can be challenging as it is clinically insignificant in the majority of patients who are presented with one or two α-gene deletion, it cannot be always suspected from the red cell indices, and the confirmatory tests of α-thalassemia are not readily available, a...
Main Authors: | Abbas Hashim Abdulsalam, Subh Salim Al-Mudallal, Nidhal Karim Al-Rahal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2020-01-01
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Series: | Iraqi Journal of Hematology |
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Online Access: | http://www.ijhonline.org/article.asp?issn=2072-8069;year=2020;volume=9;issue=2;spage=77;epage=81;aulast=Abdulsalam |
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