Clinicopathological Conference: Case Report-A Case of Anorexia and Weak Arm

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-99

  Wiler, Jennifer L ^a   Bailey, Heatherlee ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

endocarditis; infective endocarditis; pseudomonal endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY EMBOLISM; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER THROMBOEMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SEPSIS; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN EMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANOREXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SPLEEN;

EID: 33845632035     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.06.055     Document Type: Article

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