Conservative management of pneumatosis intestinalis and pneumoperitoneum following bone-marrow transplantation

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 692-695

  Ade Ajayi, N ^a   Veys, P ^a   Stanton, M ^a   Drake, D P ^a   Pierro, A ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIARRHEA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; STEROID THERAPY; VOMITING;

EID: 0036920148     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-002-0762-y     Document Type: Article

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