Typhoid intestinal perforation under 5 years of age

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-58

  Ekenze, Sebastian O ^a   Ikefuna, Anthony N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INFANT; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; JAUNDICE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TYPHOID INTESTINE PERFORATION; VOMITING; WOUND CARE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; AGE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; NIGERIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

EID: 47549085982     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532808X270680     Document Type: Article

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