Brief reportDiagnostic evaluation for infectious etiology of sickle cell pain crisis☆
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Supported by a Henry Ford Hospital Graduate Medical Education Grant.
Presented at the 1994 annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, May 9–12, Washington, DC.