The eye in cerebral malaria: what can it teach us?
Open Access
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 103 (7) , 661-664
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.11.003
Abstract
Summary. The pathophysiology of coma in cerebral malaria (CM) is not well understood. Obstruction of microcirculatory flow is thought to play a central role, bKeywords
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