Acute Hepatitis Like Presentation of Budd Chiari Syndrome in a Child.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
The patient presented with progressively increasing ascites and pain abdomen but without any bleeding tendency, or encephalopathy. The initial diagnosis of acute hepatitis was proved wrong by contrast enhanced CT scan of abdomen which showed atretic hepatic veins. Atretic hepatic veins causing Budd Chiari Syndroem (BCS) is a rarity in literature.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Humans
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Male
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Child
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Acute Disease
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Budd-Chiari Syndrome
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Hepatitis
Language:
English
Year:
2012
Type:
Article
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