Fulminant postcesarean Clostridium difficile pseudomembranous colitis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 109, Issue 2 PART 2 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 541-543

  Ghai, Sonia ^a   Ghai, Vikas ^a   Sunderji, Shiraz ^a  

^a TOLEDO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; GENTAMICIN; INFUSION FLUID; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DYSPNEA; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LABORATORY TEST; NAUSEA; PAINFUL DEFECATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECTOSCOPY; VACUUM EXTRACTION; VITAL SIGN;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; INFANT, NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; VACUUM EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL;

EID: 33846417259     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000247629.39872.b9     Document Type: Article

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