Antibiotics in acute necrotising pancreatitis

The Lancet

Volumn 371, Issue 9618, 2008, Pages 1072-

  Cullimore, Josh ^a   Cotter, Luis ^a   Gonzalez, Armando ^a  

^a DARENT VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PEFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; AMYLASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; MORTALITY; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; BLOOD; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLASSIFICATION; GALLSTONE; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS PANCREATIC NECROSIS VIRUS; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AMYLASES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS PANCREATIC NECROSIS VIRUS; LIPASE; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 40949099841     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60483-3     Document Type: Letter

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