Intra-abdominal sepsis in elderly persons

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 62-68

  Podnos, Yale D ^a   Jimenez, Juan Carlos ^a   Wilson, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFUROXIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERTAPENEM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; AGING; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG CHOICE; ELDERLY CARE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SIGMOID VOLVULUS;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; AGING; APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULITIS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SIGMOID DISEASES; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; STOMACH VOLVULUS;

EID: 0036642449     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340866     Document Type: Article

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