Hydroxyurea and sickle cell anemia. Clinical utility of a myelosuppressive "switching" agent. The Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Sickle Cell Anemia.

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Published in Medicine (Baltimore) on November 01, 1996

Authors

S Charache1, F B Barton, R D Moore, M L Terrin, M H Steinberg, G J Dover, S K Ballas, R P McMahon, O Castro, E P Orringer

Author Affiliations

1: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Multicenter Study of Hydroxyurea in Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia (MSH) | NCT00000586

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