Hepatic actinomycosis: An overview of salient features and outcome of therapy

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 386-391

  Sharma, Mamta ^a   Briski, Laurence E ^a   Khatib, Riad ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035987173     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110080304     Document Type: Article

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