Fulminant sepsis after invasive prenatal diagnosis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1244-1247

  Plachouras, Nicolaos ^a   Sotiriadis, Alexandros ^a   Dalkalitsis, Nicolaos ^a   Kontostolis, Emmanuel ^a   Xiropotamos, Nicolaos ^a   Paraskevaidis, Evangelos ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOXITIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CORDOCENTESIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTEROTOMY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; FETUS DEATH; MICROBIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CORDOCENTESIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 16244421373     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000141650.01076.98     Document Type: Review

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