Splenectomy for suspected malignant lymphoma in two patients with loiasis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 979-982

  Burchard, Gerd D ^a   Reimold Jehle, Ulrike ^b   Bürkle, Volker ^b   Kretschmer, Harald ^b   Vierbuchen, M ^b   Racz, Paul ^b   Lo, Ying ^b  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; LOA LOA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0029861631     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.979     Document Type: Article

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