Candida arteritis: Are GI endoscopic procedures a source of vascular infections?

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 472-477

  Sailors, David M ^a   Barone, Gary W ^a,b   Gagné, Paul J ^a   Eidt, John F ^a   Ketel, Beverley L ^b   Barnes, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; FLUCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; SEPTICEMIA;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; ARTERITIS; CANDIDIASIS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL SYSTEM; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 0030000247     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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