Percutaneous Catheter Drainage of Abdominal Abscesses: A Five-Year Experience

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 305, Issue 12, 1981, Pages 653-657

  Gerzof, Stephen G ^a   Robbins, Alan H ^a   Johnson, Willard C ^a   Birkett, Desmond H ^a   Nabseth, Donald C ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONEUM; THERAPY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

EID: 0019456726     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198109173051201     Document Type: Article

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