Oriental liver fluke infestation presenting more than 50 years after immigration

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 735-736

  Wee, Boon Tan ^a   Shelat, Vishal G ^a   Diddapur, Ravishankar K ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b GLENEAGLES HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFESTATION; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPISTHORCHIASIS; ANIMAL; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; FASCIOLIASIS; MALE; MIGRANT; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 69949175620     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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