Fulminant Clostridium difficile: An underappreciated and increasing cause of death and complications

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 363-372

  Dallal, Ramsey M ^a   Harbrecht, Brian G ^a   Boujoukas, Arthur J ^a   Sirio, Carl A ^a   Farkas, Linda M ^a   Lee, Kenneth K ^a   Simmons, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; APACHE; COLECTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036192008     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200203000-00008     Document Type: Article

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