Sonographic features of polyserositis as an adjunct to clinico - Pathological parameters in diagnosing and predicting the severity of dengue fever

Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-189

  Yousaf, Khalid Rehman ^a   Atiq, Salman ^a   Sheikh, Qamar Sardar ^a   Nisar, Mian Sajid ^a   Mansoor, Zahid ^a   Khalid, Shazia ^a  

^a SERVICES HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Gall bladder wall thickness; Polyseositis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT EFFUSION; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYSEROSITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; TRANSABDOMINAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84866370180     PISSN: 19967195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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