Fulminant liver failure following infection by Clostridium perfringens

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-209

  Bergert, Hendrik ^a   Illert, Till ^a   Friedrich, Katrin ^a   Ockert, Detlef ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS GANGRENE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHERMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VATER PAPILLA CARCINOMA;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 10944237446     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1096296041839462     Document Type: Article

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