Multimicrobial sepsis including Clostridium perfringens after chemoembolization of a single liver metastasis from common bile duct cancer

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Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 208-212

  Eckel, Florian ^a   Lersch, Christian ^a   Huber, Wolfgang ^a   Weiss, Wolfgang ^a   Berger, Hermann ^a   Schulte Frohlinde, Ewert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bile duct cancer; Chemoembolization; Clostridium perfringens, sepsis; Hemolysis; Hyperbaric oxygen

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BACTEREMIA; BILE DUCT CANCER; BILE REFLUX; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER METASTASIS; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS;

EID: 0033767075     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007815     Document Type: Article

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