Pathological rupture of the spleen in malaria: Analysis of 55 cases (1958-2008)

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 147-159

  Imbert, Patrick ^a   Rapp, Christophe ^a   Buffet, Pierre A ^b,c  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Falciparum; Malaria; Malariae; Ovale; Splenic rupture; Vivax

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; PRIMAQUINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLLAPSE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SUDDEN DEATH; SYNCOPE; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PLASMODIUM; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349257534     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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