Pyogenic liver abscess: An audit of 10 years' experience and analysis of risk factors

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 459-465

  Lee, King Teh ^a   Wong, Sen Ren ^a   Sheen, Pai Ching ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Hyperbilirubinemia; Hypoalbuminemia; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Pyogenic hepatic abscess; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIOLOGY; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0035702536     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050194     Document Type: Article

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