Hepatic veno-occlusive disease due to dietary toxins in a five-year-old child in Senega [3];Maladie veino-occlusive du foie d'origine alimentaire chez un enfant de cinq ans au Sénégal

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 514-515

  Ka, A S ^a   Imbert, P ^b   Diakhate I ^a   Seye, M N ^a   Michel, G ^a  

^a HÔPITAL PRINCIPAL DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; MALE; SENEGAL;

PLANT TOXIN; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PLANT POISONING; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; SENEGAL;

EID: 34249729289     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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