Clostridium difficile enteritis following total colectomy

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-74

  Yafi, F A ^a   Selvasekar, C R ^a   Cima, R R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B; LEVOFLOXACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AMPUTATION STUMP; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; ENTERITIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PELVIS ABSCESS; RECTUM SURGERY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMA; TOTAL COLON RESECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MALE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 44649151114     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-008-0402-1     Document Type: Letter

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