Fatal clostridium difficile enteritis after total abdominal colectomy

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-47

  Yee Jr , Hal F ^a   Brown Jr , Robert S ^a   Ostroff, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile enteritis; Colectomy; Death

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; ENTERITIS; FATALITY; HUMAN; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; TOTAL COLON RESECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLECTOMY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030053032     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199601000-00013     Document Type: Article

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