Colonoscopy is mandatory after Streptococcus bovis endocarditis: A lesson still not learned. Case report

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ferrari, Alberta ^a   Botrugno, Ivan ^a   Bombelli, Elisa ^a   Dominioni, Tommaso ^a   Cavazzi, Emma ^a   Dionigi, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; GENTAMICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANEMIA; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLADDER METASTASIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON STENOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR BIOPSY; URINARY TRACT CANCER; COLON; COLON TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS;

EID: 44649159972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-6-49     Document Type: Article

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