Port-site tuberculosis: A rare complication following laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 928-929

  Jagdish, Nachnani ^a   Sameer, Rege ^a   Omprakash, Rohondia ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; GLUTARALDEHYDE; LIDOFENIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LAPAROSCOPE; MYCOBACTERIUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 0036992797     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0036554021000026964     Document Type: Article

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