Case 19-2005: A 17-year-old girl with respiratory distress and hemiparesis after surviving a tsunami

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 2628-2636

  Kao, Ann Y ^a,b,c   Munandar, Rus ^d   Ferrara, Stephen L ^e,f   Systrom, David M ^a,b,c   Sheridan, Robert L ^b,c,g   Cash, Sydney S ^a,b,c   Ryan, Edward T ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Project HOPE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (Indonesia)

^e US Naval Ship Mercy T AH19 ^*  (United States)

^f NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^g SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEROPENEM; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISASTER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEAR DROWNING; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; PARESIS; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; APHASIA, BROCA; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; PARESIS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 20544466938     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059015     Document Type: Article

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