Left upper quadrant abdominal pain in malaria: Suspect pathological splenic rupture first

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 628-

  Imbert, Patrick ^a   Buffet, Pierre ^b   Ficko, Cécile ^a   Rapp, Christophe ^a  

^a SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Malaria; Pathological splenic rupture; Splenic infarction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN RUPTURE;

EID: 77955581328     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.06.005     Document Type: Letter

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