Salmonella Aortic Aneurysm: A Patient with Nonspecific Type of Low-Back and Abdominal Pain
Infected aortic aneurysms are uncommon. Their nonspecific clinical symptoms make them easy for doctors to miss, and then severe complications and high mortality come weeks later. We present a 73-year-old man who had nonspecific low-back pain and was found to have infectious aortitis with positive cu...
Main Authors: | Chien-Jen Kao, Wen-Han Chang, Wai-Mau Choi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taiwan Society of Geriatric Emergency and Critical Medicine (TSGECM)
2007-09-01
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Series: | International Journal of Gerontology |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873959808700358 |
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