Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Children: Abdominal US Findings within 1 Week of Presentation

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 685-689

  Schmidt, Matthias H ^a   Sung, Lillian ^b   Shuckett, Bruce M ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SCARBOROUGH HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdomen, US; Blood, diseases; Ultrasound (US), in infants and children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

ABDOMEN; ASCITES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 1342266180     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2303030223     Document Type: Article

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