Influenza virus infection mimicking an acute abdomen in a female adolescent

We report an adolescent with respiratory symptoms admitted for clinical signs of an acute abdomen. The only diagnostic finding was influenza A viral RNA detected in an upper respiratory tract specimen. Influenza should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children with respiratory illness...

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Autores principales: Vivar, Karina L, Uyeki, Timothy M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12222
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spelling pubmed-41864602014-10-29 Influenza virus infection mimicking an acute abdomen in a female adolescent Vivar, Karina L Uyeki, Timothy M Influenza Other Respir Viruses Short Articles We report an adolescent with respiratory symptoms admitted for clinical signs of an acute abdomen. The only diagnostic finding was influenza A viral RNA detected in an upper respiratory tract specimen. Influenza should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children with respiratory illness and abdominal pain during influenza season. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-03 2013-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4186460/ /pubmed/24373432 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12222 Text en © 2013 The Authors. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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