Microbiology of subphrenic abscesses: A 14-year experience

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1049-1053

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b   Frazier, Edith H ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHILD; COLON SURGERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVOTELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH SURGERY; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS;

EID: 0032754324     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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