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Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2013 Dec 26. doi: 10.1111/irv.12222. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza virus infection mimicking an acute abdomen in a female adolescent.
Vivar KL, Uyeki TM.
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Abstract
We report an adolescent with respiratory symptoms admitted for clinical signs of an acute abdomen. The only diagnostic finding was influenza A viral RNA detected in an upper respiratory tract specimen. Influenza should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children with respiratory illness and abdominal pain during influenza season.
? 2013 The Authors Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
KEYWORDS:
Abdominal pain, cytokine storm, hypercytokinemia, influenza
PMID:
24373432
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373432
Influenza virus infection mimicking an acute abdomen in a female adolescent.
Vivar KL, Uyeki TM.
Author information
Abstract
We report an adolescent with respiratory symptoms admitted for clinical signs of an acute abdomen. The only diagnostic finding was influenza A viral RNA detected in an upper respiratory tract specimen. Influenza should be considered in the differential diagnosis of children with respiratory illness and abdominal pain during influenza season.
? 2013 The Authors Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
KEYWORDS:
Abdominal pain, cytokine storm, hypercytokinemia, influenza
PMID:
24373432
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373432