The acute abdomen in the immune compromised host

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-101

  Spencer, Simon Paul ^a   Power, Niall ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Immunocompromised

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMETABOLITE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; INDINAVIR;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; AIDS PATIENT; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEUKEMIA; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LYMPHOMA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PEPTIC ULCER; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; REVIEW; STOMACH DISEASE; TYPHLITIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NEUTROPENIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44249111423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2008.0013     Document Type: Review

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