Splenic abscess: Clinical features, microbiologic finding, treatment and outcome

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 436-441

  Sangchan, Apichat ^a   Mootsikapun, Piroon ^a   Mairiang, Pisaln ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Burkholderia Pseudomallei; Melioidosis; Splenic Abscess

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SURVIVAL RATE; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041845258     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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