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Drug-resistant childhood visceral leishmaniasis. Is splenectomy a solution?

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Kala-azar is predominantly a disease of children below the age of 15 years in Asia and other endemic areas of the world. A series of seven drug-resistant cases, six of which underwent elective splenectomy, is presented and the potential value of splenectomy in this subset of cases is discussed.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Surgery, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, S. S. K. M. Hospital, 20, Calcutta, India

    B. Mukhopadhyay

  2. Department of Paediatric Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, S. S. K. M. Hospital, 20, Calcutta, India

    A. K. Sarkar

  3. Department of General Surgery, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, S. S. K. M. Hospital, 20, Calcutta, India

    A. Dasgupta & M. M. Chowdhury

  4. Department of Pathology, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, S. S. K. M. Hospital, 20, Calcutta, India

    M. Mukhopadhyay & S. Sarkar

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Mukhopadhyay, B., Sarkar, A.K., Dasgupta, A. et al. Drug-resistant childhood visceral leishmaniasis. Is splenectomy a solution?. Pediatr Surg Int 8, 314–315 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00173353

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