Renal, colonic and retroperitoneal actinomycosis - A case report

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-345

  Gidwami, Anand L ^a   Connolly, David ^a   Khan, Azmat ^a   Kemohan, Robert ^a   Brown, Malcolm ^b   Kenny, Brian ^b  

^a NORTHERN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b United Hospitals Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinomycosis; Colonic; Cure; Renal; Retroperitoneal

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY TUMOR; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE RESECTION; NEPHRECTOMY; PSOAS MUSCLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PENICILLINS; PERITONEUM; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31744442865     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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