Hepatic changes in fatal malaria: An emerging problem

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-127

  Rupani, A B ^a,b   Amarapurkar, A D ^a  

^a BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Sapna Housing Society   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC FERROCYANIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SMEAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FATALITY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIA; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; JAUNDICE; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER NECROSIS; MALARIA; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAINING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TISSUE SECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SEASON; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INDIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61849156260     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X385054     Document Type: Article

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