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| Matos,Eliana Dias; Costa,Everaldo; Sacramento,Edilson; Caymmi,Anna Luiza; Araújo Neto,César de; Lopes,Marcelo Barreto; Lopes,Antonio Alberto. |
| This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of pulmonary radiograph abnormalities and describe the distribution of the patterns of radiographic alterations among patients hospitalized with leptospirosis. Chest radiographs of 139 patients hospitalized with leptospirosis in Couto Maia Hospital, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, between July, 1997, and July, 1999, were analyzed. The radiographs were requested soon after hospital admission, independent of the clinical manifestations of the patients. Only the first radiograph was considered. Pulmonary radiograph alterations were recorded in 35/139 patients (25.2%); 95% mid-point confidence interval = 18.5% to 32.9%. Among the patients with radiograph alterations, alveolar infiltrate was seen in 26/35 (74.3%).... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Leptospirosis; Chest radiography. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702001000200005 |
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