Case 27-1983: A 25-Year-Old Homosexual Man with Persistent Fever and Liver Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 35-43

  Cabot, Richard C ^a   Scully, Robert E ^a   Mark, Eugene J ^a   Mcneely, Betty U ^a   Koff, Raymond S ^a   Gang, David L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

CASE REPORT; DRUG THERAPY; GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; SYPHILIS; THERAPY;

EID: 0020962392     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198307073090108     Document Type: Article

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