An unusual manifestation of scrub typhus presenting with splenic infarct: a case report
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چکیده
Scrub typhus has a wide range of clinical presentation varying from mild symptoms like fever, chills, headaches, myalgias, gastric ulcerations and hepatitis to more fatal conditions pneumonia encephalopathy caused by disseminated vasculitis with splenic infarct being rare complication. We report case 50-years old male scrub who presented as multiple infarcts.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Advances in Medicine
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2349-3925', '2349-3933']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20230368