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Title : Pancytopenia in a child with cystic fibrosis and severe
copper deficiency: Insight from bone marrow evaluation
Authors : Maggie D. Seblani1,2; Susanna A.
McColley2,3,4; Shunyou Gong5; Lee M.
Bass2,6; Sherif M. Badawy1,2
Affiliations : 1 Division of Hematology,
Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s
Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 2 Department of
Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,
Chicago, IL, USA; 3 Division of Pulmonary and Sleep
Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA; 4 Stanley Manne Children’s Research
Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois, USA; 5 Division of Pediatric
Pathology, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago,
Chicago, IL; 6 Division of Gastroenterology,
Hepatology and Nutrition, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of
Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Correspondence: Sherif M. Badawy, MD, MS, MBBCh, 225 E. Chicago
Ave., Box #30, Chicago, IL, 60611, office: 312-227-4836, fax:
312-227-9376, e-mail:
sbadawy@luriechildrens.org
Word count: 498
Number of Tables, Figures, and Supplemental files : 1
Running title: Bone marrow findings with severe copper
deficiency
Keywords: pancytopenia, anemia, leucopenia, neutropenia,
thrombocytopenia, copper deficiency, ring sideroblasts, copper
supplement, cystic fibrosis, malabsorption
Conflict of Interest: Author has no conflicts of interest to
disclose.