A study of sutopsy findings in 62 cases of Leptospirosis in a Metropolitan City in India

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 169-173

  Salkade, H P ^a   Divate, S ^b   Deshpande, J R ^a   Kawishwar, V ^a   Chaturvedi, R ^a   Kandalkar, B M ^a   Vaideeswar, P ^b  

^a BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Leptospirosis; Post mortem histopathology; Pulmonary haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLEEDING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; JAUNDICE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCARDITIS; OLIGURIA; SPIROCHETE; TISSUE SECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 28844485682     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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