Typhoid fever with caecal ulcer bleed: Managed conservatively

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Boopathy, Vinoth ^a   Periyasamy, Sivakumar ^a   Alexander, Thomas ^a   Balasubramanian, Padhmini ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CEFTRIAXONE; HEMOGLOBIN; PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; CECUM ULCER BLEEDING; CHILL; COLONOSCOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENDOTHERAPY; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RIGOR; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898620699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-203756     Document Type: Article

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