The nurse is assessing a school-age child with sickle-cell anemia. Which assessment finding is consistent with this patient's diagnosis?
A) Slightly yellow sclera
B) Enlarged mandibular growth
C) Increased growth of long bones
D) Depigmented areas on the abdomen
A
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In sickle-cell anemia, eye scleras become icteric or yellowed from the release of bilirubin from the destruction of the sickled cells. Mandibular and long bone growth and depigmentation are not manifestations of this health problem.
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