Treatment of patients with pyogenic liver abscess

Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 366-369

  Cerwenka, H ^a   Bacher, H ^a   Werkgartner, G ^a   El Shabrawi, A ^a   Kornprat, P ^a   Bernhardt, G A ^a   Mischinger, H J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antibiotic sensitivity testing; Antibiotic therapy; Biliary fistula; Chemotherapy; Microbiological culture; Percutaneous drainage; Posttraumatic liver abscess; Pyogenic liver abscess; Surgical drainage

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJURY; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATHOGENESIS; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BILIARY FISTULA; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27544471816     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088964     Document Type: Article

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