Dengue hemorrhagic fever patients with acute abdomen: Clinical experience of 14 cases

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 901-904

  Khor, Boon Siang ^b   Liu, Jien Wei ^a,c   Lee, Ing Kit ^c   Yang, Kuender D ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b LI SHIN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; THROMBOCYTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 33745020184     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.901     Document Type: Article

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