A case of long latency amoebic liver abscess in a nonendemic country: The clue diagnostic value of subtle colonoscopic changes

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-102

  Jimenez Saenz, M ^a   Romero Vazquez, J ^a   Linares Santiago, E ^a   Herrerias Gutierrez, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; METRONIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER AMEBIASIS; LIVER BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMEBICIDES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CECUM; COLON, ASCENDING; COLONOSCOPY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PAROMOMYCIN; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845881421     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.08.005     Document Type: Letter

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