Biliary tract candidiasis: Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in a case series

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2530-2536

  Domagk, Dirk ^a   Fegeler, Wolfgang ^a   Conrad, Beate ^a   Menzel, Josef ^a   Domschke, Wolfram ^a   Kucharzik, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BILE DUCT; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LAVAGE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; BILE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CANDIDIASIS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DEBRIDEMENT; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33750510712     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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