Visceral leishmaniasis misdiagnosed as malignant lymphoma

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 502-506

  Kawakami, Akio ^a   Fukunaga, Toshiaki ^a   Usui, Michio ^a   Asaoka, Hiroshi ^a   Noda, Makoto ^a   Nakajima, Takatoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Yuji ^a   Tanaka, Akira ^a   Kishi, Yukio ^a   Numano, Fujio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fever of unknown origin; Leishmania (Leishmania) donovani

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOMA; SPLENECTOMY; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

EID: 8944261596     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.502     Document Type: Article

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