Acute surgical abdomen - An atypical presentation of Plasmodium vivax malaria [12]

Gut

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-448

  Gopisetty, Sunil ^a,b   Sarveswaran, Jonahan ^a   Achuthan, Raj ^a   Davies, J ^a   Ausobsky, J R ^a  

^a BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Dewsbury and District Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RESUSCITATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; ACUTE ABDOMEN; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ANTIMALARIALS; HUMANS; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL;

EID: 34047132670     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2006.114454     Document Type: Letter

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