A note on clinical presentations of amebic liver abscess: An overview from62 Thai patients

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-4

  Wiwanitkit, Viroj ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAUNDICE; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; THAILAND; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND;

EID: 3342993225     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-3-13     Document Type: Review

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