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Lacrimal gland enlargement in sickle cell disease.

Adewoye AH, Ramsey J, McMahon L, Sakai O, Steinberg MH

Department of Medicine and The Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. hadewoye@bu.edu

Sickle cell disease (SCD) may have ocular complications. We present the a case of a patient with SCD, with an acute painful episode involving the limbs and periorbital region, who also twice developed an unusual complication of recurrent bilateral lacrimal gland enlargement, not previously reported in the medical literature.

Published 18 October 2006 in Am J Hematol, 81(11): 888-9.
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