Pylephlebitis (septic thrombophlebitis of the portal vein) with portal venous gas: An unusual focus of infection in a patient with septic shock;Pylephlebitis mit luft im pfortadersystem: Ungewöhnlicher fokus bei einem patienten mit sepsis

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 25-26, 2003, Pages 1391-1394

  Kluge, Stefan ^a   Hahn, K E ^a   Lund, C H ^a   Gocht, A ^a   Kreymann, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CEFOTAXIME; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; METRONIDAZOLE; PHLEBITIS; PORTAL VEIN; SHOCK, SEPTIC; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0038348181     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40107     Document Type: Article

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