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Anemia, Sickle Cell

"Anemia, Sickle Cell" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A disease characterized by chronic hemolytic anemia, episodic painful crises, and pathologic involvement of many organs. It is the clinical expression of homozygosity for hemoglobin S.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Anemia, Sickle Cell" by people in this website by year, and whether "Anemia, Sickle Cell" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 92 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2018 and 2024
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