Detection of early liver fibrosis in patients with intestinal schistosomiasis: Sonographic and histologic findings in schistosoma mansoni infection

Infection

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 585-589

  Chiavaroli, R ^a   Grima, P ^a,a  

^a S Caterina Novella Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTESTINE INFECTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MADAGASCAR; MORBIDITY; NEUTROPHIL; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIGRATION; PARASITIC LIVER DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ADULT; ANIMALS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MADAGASCAR; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62249111472     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-008-7202-4     Document Type: Article

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