Pneumonia presenting with lower right abdominal pain and migratory polyarthritis

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-30

  Armeni, Eleni ^a   Mylona, Vasiliki ^a   Karlis, George ^a   Makrygiannis, Elias ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Community acquired pneumonia; Migratory arthritis

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HIATUS HERNIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; LUMBAR DISK; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84862017832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22130071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmedc.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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