Ruptured staphylococcal splenic abscess resulting in peritonitis: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 566-567

  Balasubramanian, Sabapathy Prakash ^a   Mojjada, Prasada Rao ^a   Bose, Shashanka Mohan ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Peritonitis; Splenic abscess

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEVER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; SPLEEN ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABSCESS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; RUPTURE; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; DRAINAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PERITONITIS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SPLENIC RUPTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035989961     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950200100     Document Type: Article

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