Peripheral gangrene in an 18-month-old boy with Plasmodium vivax malaria

Paediatrics and International Child Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 164-166

  Raghunandan, J ^a   Rajeshwari, K ^a   Dubey, A P ^a   Singh, T ^a  

^a MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Peripheral gangrene; Vivax malaria

Indexed keywords

ARTESUNATE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPISTAXIS; FEVER; GAMETOCYTE; GANGRENE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; PETECHIA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM VIVAX MALARIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHIZONT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BLOOD; BONE MARROW; FINGERS; GANGRENE; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, VIVAX; MALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84871418216     PISSN: 20469047     EISSN: 20469055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2046905512Y.0000000006     Document Type: Article

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