A splenic hydatid cyst case presented with lumbar pain

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1023-1024

  Celebi, Selman ^a   Basaranoglu, Metin ^a   Karaaslan, Hayri ^a   Demir, Ali ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hydatid cyst; Spleen

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER RESECTION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG HYDATID CYST; LUNG RESECTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN HYDATID CYST; SPLENECTOMY;

ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MIDDLE AGED; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 33749491017     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.6015     Document Type: Article

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