Spontaneous splenic rupture due to dengue fever: Report of two cases

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 538-540

  Seravali, Maria Roberta Meneguetti ^a,b   dos Santos, Antônio Henrique Gomes ^a   Costa, Carlos Eduardo Fávero ^a   Rangel, Diego Teixeira Alves ^a   Valentim, Leonardo Fernandes ^a   Gonçalves, Raphael Moreira ^a  

^a Jacarepaguá Hospital   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LIVER CONGESTION; MALE; MYALGIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; RUPTURE;

ADULT; DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMANS; MALE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549132820     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702008000600019     Document Type: Article

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