Acute Severe Calculous Cholecystitis with Multiorgan Failure Complicated by Scrub Typhus
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A Case of Scrub Typhus Complicated by Acute Calculous Cholecystitis
We report a case of acute calculous cholecystitis through scrub typhus. A 69-year-old woman presented with a history of general myalgia, fever, and right abdominal pain. She referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. Physicians concluded the cause of cholecystitis as gall bladder (GB) stone and proper antibiotics treatment of scrub typhus was st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Surgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2090-6900,2090-6919
DOI: 10.1155/2019/7505108