Splenic abscess: An easily overlooked disease?

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 322-325

  Tung, Cheng Cheng ^a,b   Chen, Feng Chi ^b,c   Lo, Chong Jeh ^d,e  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Surgery   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ABSCESS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; SPLEEN DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646921795     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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