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Amebiasis presenting as acute appendicitis: Report of a case and review of Japanese literature

INTRODUCTION: Outside of these high-risk regions, acute amebic appendicitis is considerably rarer and the mortality rate is much higher than with non-amebic appendicitis. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 31-year-old woman presented with fever and right lower abdominal pain with no history of traveling abroad...

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Autores principales: Ito, Daisuke, Hata, Shojirou, Seiichiro, Shimizu, Kobayashi, Kaoru, Teruya, Masanori, Kaminishi, Michio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4275826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25460473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.10.035