Percutaneous Needle Aspiration in the Treatment of Hepatic Abscess: Factors Influencing Patients' Outcome

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-177

  Lo, R H G ^a   Yu, S C H ^b   Kan, P S ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

First line treatment; Septicaemia; Surgery; Systemic antibiotics; Ultrasound guided

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; NEOPLASM; PARACENTESIS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEOPLASMS; PARACENTESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032017865     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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