Portal venous gas associated with splenic abscess secondary to colon cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6 C, 1999, Pages 5641-5644

  Nakao, Atsunori ^a   Iwagaki, Hiromi ^a   Isozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Kanagawa, Taiichiro ^a   Matsubara, Nagahide ^a   Takakura, Norihisa ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Portal venous gas; Splenic abscess

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLENECTOMY;

ABSCESS; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EMBOLISM, AIR; HUMANS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0033368052     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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