Author:
Srivastava Saurav,Chaubey Digamber,Kumar Sujit,Thakur Vinit Kumar,Rahul Sandip Kumar
Abstract
Abstract
Postoperative posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome has seldom been reported in the pediatric age group. We describe this syndrome in a child of hereditary spherocytosis who underwent splenectomy for hypersplenism.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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