Clinical Precipitating Factors and Analysis of Stroke-Associated Pneumonia
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Evaluation of epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory factors of hospitalized children with pneumonia
Introduction: Pneumonia is one of the major causes of mortality in acute respiratory infections of children. Most of death cases due to pneumonia among children, occurred several days after clinical manifestation which is due to delay of remedy or indiscrimination. Our aim, in this study, is evaluation of epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory factors of hospitalized children with pneumon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2328-0409,2328-0395
DOI: 10.12677/acrem.2017.51002