Acute appendicitis in a child with swine influenza (H1N1)

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Plataras, Christos ^a   Tsangouri, Sotiria ^a   Bourikas, Dimitrios ^a   Christianakis, Efstratios ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Pentelis   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DRUG THERAPY; INFUSION FLUID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; COUGHING; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MALAISE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MESENTERIC LYMPHADENITIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRAL UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; THERAPEUTIC USE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

EID: 84963978339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-208219     Document Type: Article

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