Fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis in a patient with spinal cord injury: Case report

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 266-268

  Bahadursingh, Anil N ^a   Vagefi, Parsia A ^b   Longo, Walter E ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile colitis; Colectomy; Diabetes mellitus; End stage renal disease; Paraplegia; Pseudomembranous colitis; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; MALE; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; COLON RESECTION; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 16544366179     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2004.11753760     Document Type: Article

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