Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis

Leptospirosis is the commonest zoonotic infection worldwide but is vastly underreported and extremely heterogeneous in its presentation. Acalculous cholecystitis is an under recognized presentation of acute leptospirosis. In the appropriate clinical context, with a clear exposure history, recognitio...

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Autores principales: Davies, Peter, Aoyagi, Yuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1173
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description Leptospirosis is the commonest zoonotic infection worldwide but is vastly underreported and extremely heterogeneous in its presentation. Acalculous cholecystitis is an under recognized presentation of acute leptospirosis. In the appropriate clinical context, with a clear exposure history, recognition of this association presents a unifying diagnosis and limits unnecessary surgical interventions.
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spelling pubmed-56762752017-11-17 Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis Davies, Peter Aoyagi, Yuki Clin Case Rep Case Reports Leptospirosis is the commonest zoonotic infection worldwide but is vastly underreported and extremely heterogeneous in its presentation. Acalculous cholecystitis is an under recognized presentation of acute leptospirosis. In the appropriate clinical context, with a clear exposure history, recognition of this association presents a unifying diagnosis and limits unnecessary surgical interventions. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5676275/ /pubmed/29152269 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1173 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis
title Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis
title_full Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis
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title_short Leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis
title_sort leptospirosis presenting as acute acalculous cholecystitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152269
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1173
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