How 40 kilograms of fluid retention can be overlooked: Two case reports

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ong, Hon Shing ^a   Sze, Candy Wing Chiu ^a   Koh, Tat Woon ^b   Coppack, Simon Ward ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FLUID RETENTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; OBESITY; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

EID: 77953407225     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-33     Document Type: Article

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