Endoscopic therapy of a splenic abscess: definitive treatment via EUS-guided transgastric drainage

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 631-634

  Lee, Dong H ^a   Cash, Brooks D ^a   Womeldorph, Craig M ^a   Horwhat, John D ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEVER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PELVIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ABSCESS; THORAX PAIN; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DRAINAGE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROSCOPES; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; RECURRENCE; SPLENIC DISEASES; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748858511     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.04.031     Document Type: Article

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