Case 29-2010: A 29-year-old woman with fever and abdominal pain

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1266-1274

  Hunt, Daniel P ^a,b   Thabet, Ashraf ^a,b   Rosenberg, Eric S ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IBUPROFEN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PROCHLORPERAZINE; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LEG PAIN; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; THORAX PAIN; URINALYSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANEMIA; BLOOD; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENOMEGALY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CEREBRAL PALSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SPLENIC INFARCTION; SPLENOMEGALY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957171966     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1007084     Document Type: Article

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