Multiple brain abscesses in a child with congenital cyanotic heart disease

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 603-605

  Ghafoor, Tariq ^a   Amin, Muhammad Umar ^a  

^a Peshawar Cantonment   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LABORATORY TEST; NEUTROPHILIA; SKIN DISCOLORATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN ABSCESS; CEFTRIAXONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; METRONIDAZOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

EID: 34247140929     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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