title: Rupture of the spleen in a Central American immigrant.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rubio
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Berkman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004544:El Salvador / Q000208:ethnology; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D016780:Malaria, Vivax / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010966:Plasmodium vivax / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D013156:Splenectomy; D013161:Splenic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography