Acute pancreatitis and subdural haematoma in a patient with severe falciparum malaria: Case report and review of literature

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Seshadri, Pratibha ^a   Dev, Anand Vimal ^a   Viggeswarpu, Surekha ^a   Sathyendra, Sowmya ^a   Peter, John Victor ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CLOBAZAM; DOXYCYCLINE; GABAPENTIN; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; QUININE; SESQUITERPENE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG FEVER; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PANCREATITIS; PARASITOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; BLOOD; BRAIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUININE; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 44949226292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-97     Document Type: Article

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