Hemophagocytic syndrome in association with visceral leishmaniasis [2]

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 439-440

  Kontopoulou, Theano ^a   Tsaousis, George ^a   Vaidakis, Emmanouel ^a   Fanourgiakis, Panagiotis ^a   Michalakeas, Elias ^a   Trigoni, Evangelia ^a   Samarkos, Michael ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOPLASM; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SPLENOMEGALY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINE CULTURE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0036798945     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01203-2     Document Type: Letter

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