Primary bacterial peritonitis in otherwise healthy children: Imaging findings

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 198-201

  Dann, Phoebe H ^a   Amodio, John B ^a   Rivera, Rafael ^a   Fefferman, Nancy R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Abdomen; Appendicitis; CT; Primary bacterial peritonitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VOMITING;

APPENDICITIS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERITONITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12344280059     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-004-1304-7     Document Type: Article

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