Diagnostic usefulness of percutaneous liver biopsy in HIV-infected patients with fever of unknown origin

Journal of Infection

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 94-98

  Garcia Ordonez M A ^a,b   Colmenero, J D ^a   Jimenez Onate F ^a   Martos, F ^a   Martinez J ^a   Juarez C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LEISHMANIASIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPAIN; SPLENOMEGALY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032952207     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-4453(99)90075-0     Document Type: Article

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