Fulminant massive gas gangrene caused by Clostridium perfringens

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 499-502

  Kuroda, Shoji ^a   Okada, Yumi ^a   Mita, Masaki ^a   Okamoto, Yasuo ^a   Kato, Hirotaka ^a   Ueyama, Shigemitsu ^a   Fujii, Ikuzo ^a   Morita, Sumiharu ^a   Yoshida, Yasuaki ^a  

^a Miki Sanyo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti Clostridium perfringens enteroxinA polyclonal antibody; Clostridium perfringens; Gas gangrene

Indexed keywords

BIAPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN PHOSPHATE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DELIRIUM; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEVER; GAS GANGRENE; HEMATEMESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GAS GANGRENE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RECTUM; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244444635     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.499     Document Type: Article

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