Hoof beats may mean zebras: Atraumatic splenic rupture

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 778-780

  Seible, Daniel M ^a   Khatana, Sameed Ahmed M ^a,b   Solomon, Martin P ^a,b   Parr, Jonathan B ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; QUININE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FATIGUE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LEG; LYME DISEASE; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NAUSEA; PIROPLASMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER PAIN; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SWEAT; TRUNK; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84883230951     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.010     Document Type: Note

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