A case series of splenic infarction during acute malaria in northwest Rajasthan, India

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-83

  Gupta, B K ^a   Sharma, Kapil ^a   Nayak, K C ^a   Agrawal, T D ^a   Binani, Anand ^b   Purohit, V P ^a   Kochar, D K ^a  

^a S P MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Binani X ray Clinic   (India)

Author keywords

Falciparum malaria; India; Mixed infection; Plasmodium; Splenic infarction; Vivax malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE; CLINDAMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CHILL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; INDIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; RIGOR; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX PAIN; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SPLENIC INFARCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 70649097017     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.05.015     Document Type: Article

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