Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: Aid of abdominal ultrasonography in prediction of severity

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 817-820

  Ziraman, Ipek ^a   Celikbas, Aysel ^a   Ergonul, Onder ^b   Degirmenci, Tulin ^a   Uyanik, Sadik Ahmet ^a   Koparal, Suha ^a   Dokuzoguz, Basak ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abdominal ultrasonography; Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; Severity of disease

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER WALL THICKENING; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAIRO VIRUS; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENOMEGALY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NAIROVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911130859     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2014.1662     Document Type: Article

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