Ultrasound in tropical and parasitic diseases

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9387, 2003, Pages 900-902

  Richter, Joachim ^a   Hatz, Christoph ^b   Häussinger, Dieter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ASCARIS; ASPIRATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLADDER DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EVALUATION; FILARIA; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TREMATODE; TROPICAL DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0141853341     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14334-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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