Central venous thrombosis misdiagnosed as eclampsia in an emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-50

  Savage, H ^a,b   Harrison, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LABOR INDUCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38749103101     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.047076     Document Type: Article

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