Approach to toxic megacolon;Actitud ante un megacolon tóxico

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 415-428

  Gonzalez Lara V ^a   Perez Calle J L ^a   Martin Jimenez I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HYDROCORTISONE; IMIPRAMINE; METHOTREXATE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COLON RESECTION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; STOMACH ULCER; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0037777650     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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