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Case Report: Peptic ulcer disease following short-term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in a 3-year-old child
2021-06-09
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<h4>Background: </h4> Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) affects 1-2 per 1000 people annually in the USA, the UK and Europe, and occurs less frequently in children than in adults. PUD in children occurs mainly during the second decade of development. Among risk factors, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), commonly used to manage acute febrile illness or pain in healthy children, is rarely reported to lead to P...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78d0c169-23c3-5b54-94cf-d1146a98e26e
- DOI
- 10.12688/f1000research.24007.2