Fulminant Amebic Colitis: Recommended Treatment to Improve Survival

Tzu Chi Medical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Chen, Hwa Tzong ^a,b   Hsu, Yung Hsiang ^b   Chang, Yao Zen ^a  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amebiasis; Amebic dysentery; Fulminant amebic colitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON INTUSSUSCEPTION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; ILEOSTOMY; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHOZOITE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1242340308     PISSN: 10163190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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