Acute abdominal pain: An unusual medical cause

Acute Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-28

  Chan, James ^a   Ahmed, Adil ^b   Stacey, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Diagnosis; Infection; Lyme disease; Treatment; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATINE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OPIATE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECREASED APPETITE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; SEROLOGY; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 67651111617     PISSN: 17474884     EISSN: 17474892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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