Malakoplakia of the caecum in a kidney-transplant recipient: Presentation as acute tumoral perforation and fatal outcome

Transplant International

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 293-296

  Berney, Thierry ^a,b   Chautems, Roland ^a,b   Ciccarelli, Olga ^b   Latinne, Dominique ^b   Pirson, Yves ^b   Squifflet, Jean Paul ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli infection; Immunosuppression; Kidney transplantation; Macrophage dysfunction; Malakoplakia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; MALACOPLAKIA; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPSIS;

BACTEREMIA; CECAL DISEASES; CECAL NEOPLASMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALACOPLAKIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032883927     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001470050227     Document Type: Article

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