Infectious disease complications of GI endoscopy: Part I, endogenous infections

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 546-556

  Nelson, Douglas B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE; MORRHUATE SODIUM; POLIDOCANOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CARDIOBACTERIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; MEDLINE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VEIN LIGATION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037384931     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.139     Document Type: Review

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