Clinical reasoning and decision-making in practice. A young boy with fever, pancytopenia and an enlarged spleen;Klinisch denken en beslissen in de praktijk. Een jongetje met koorts, pancytopenie en een grote milt

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 150, Issue 30, 2006, Pages 1662-1668

  Van Vliet, M J ^a   Veeken, H ^b   Hart, W ^b   Tamminga, R Y J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENEESKUNDE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE;

AMASTIGOTE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 33746834009     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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