Delayed diagnosis of steroid-induced colon diverticulum perforation

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1183, 2003, Pages

  Kouyialis, Andreas T ^a,b   Sakas, Damianos E ^a   Boviatsis, Efstathios J ^a   Maratheftis, Nick ^a   Korfias, Stefanos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RANITIDINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAPAROTOMY; LONG TERM CARE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACENTESIS; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSVERSE COLON; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; INTESTINE PERFORATION;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0642373251     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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