Primary meningococcal pericarditis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 213-215

  Baevsky, Robert H ^a,b  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; PREDNISONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032792909     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520165     Document Type: Article

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