Multiple brain abscesses in a patient with bilateral pulmonary arteriovenous malformations and immunoglobulin deficiency

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 936, 2003, Pages 597-599

  Tse, K C ^a   Ooi, G C ^a   Wu, A ^a   Ho, P L ^a   Ip, S K ^a   Jim, M H ^a   Lam, Y M ^a   Fan, Y W ^a   Tso, W K ^a   Tsang, K W ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL FLORA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHINESE; CLUBBING FINGERS; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY WARD; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FUNCTION; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANOXEMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN ABSCESS; DYSPNEA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; IGA DEFICIENCY; IGG DEFICIENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 10744220749     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.79.936.597     Document Type: Article

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