Ascites, hypercalcaemia, diffuse peritoneal thickening and elevated OM-MA in a fifteen-year-old girl (a case of peritoneal tuberculosis) [2]

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 216-217

  Ayonrinde, O T ^a   Zimmerman, M J ^a  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CA 125 ANTIGEN; CALCITRIOL; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCALCEMIA; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MESENTERITIS; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASCITES; CA-125 ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCALCEMIA; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONITIS, TUBERCULOUS;

EID: 2442486443     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0903.2004.00575.x     Document Type: Letter

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