Clostridium difficile colitis associated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-372

  Emoto, Makoto ^a   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^a   Hachisuga, Toru ^a   Eguchi, Fuyuki ^a   Shirakawa, Koichi ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; DOXORUBICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MIXTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; VOMITING;

EID: 0029890470     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0158     Document Type: Article

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