Portal venous thrombophlebitis in a case of perforated appendicitis: Lessons from a case

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1234, 2006, Pages

  Sakalkale, Renukadas P ^a   Reeve, Paul ^a  

^a WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BILIRUBIN; D DIMER; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; INFUSION FLUID; WARFARIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROENTERITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PORTAL VEIN; REVIEW; RIGOR; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VOMITING; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; APPENDICITIS; HUMANS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744496284     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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