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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...
Autores principales: | Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Soni, Bakul M, Hughes, Peter L, O'Brien, David, Oo, Tun, Aung, Wunna |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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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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