Glandular fever and pulmonary artery thrombosis in a paraplegic patient, who had undergone splenectomy for splenic trauma sustained along with spinal cord injury: misdiagnosed initially as urine infection and later as lymphoma when CT scan revealed enlarged lymph nodes: a case report

BACKGROUND: A 36-year-old male sustained fracture of first lumbar vertebra, splenic tear and paraplegia in a motorcycle accident in 2001; splenectomy was performed. CASE PRESENTATION: In 2008, he presented with temperature and feeling rough. With a diagnosis of urine infection, he was prescribed cip...

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Autores principales: Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Soni, Bakul M, Hughes, Peter L, O'Brien, David, Oo, Tun, Aung, Wunna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19161590
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-76

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2635124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19161590
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-76

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