Necrosis of the femoral head associated with sickle-cell anemia and its genetic variants. A review of the literature and study of thirteen cases

MeSH terms

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Anemia, Sickle Cell / complications*
• Anemia, Sickle Cell / diagnosis
• Black People
• Blood Protein Electrophoresis
• Bone Diseases / etiology
• Chemical Phenomena
• Chemistry
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Epiphyses / pathology
• Female
• Femur Head* / diagnostic imaging
• Femur Head* / pathology
• Genes
• Hemoglobin C
• Hemoglobinopathies / genetics
• Hemoglobins / analysis
• Hemoglobins / biosynthesis
• Hemoglobins, Abnormal
• Hip* / diagnostic imaging
• Humans
• Hyperplasia / etiology
• Infarction / etiology
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Necrosis / epidemiology
• Necrosis / etiology*
• Necrosis / pathology
• Osteochondritis / etiology
• Radiography
• Thalassemia
• Thrombosis / etiology