The added value of peripheral blood cell morphology in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases - Part 2: Illustrative cases

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 997, 2008, Pages 586-589

  Potasman, I ^a,b   Prokocimer, M ^c,d  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; FOLIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VALACICLOVIR;

ACANTHOCYTOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE APLASIA; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOSPLENISM; INFECTION; JAUNDICE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MONOCYTE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PALLOR; PARVOVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RETICULOCYTE; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SEPSIS; SPLEEN DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UROSEPSIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEAKNESS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA, LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTIC; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; SPLENIC DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149232856     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2008.069617     Document Type: Review

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