Clostridium septicum infrarenal aortitis secondary to occult cecal adenocarcinoma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1316-1318

  Rucker, Creed M ^a   Menias, Christine O ^a   Bhalla, Sanjeev ^a   Geraghty, Patrick ^b   Heiken, Jay P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ABDOMINAL AORTA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CECUM TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16544384052     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.5.1831316     Document Type: Article

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