Is surgery still needed for the treatment of pyogenic liver abscess?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 697-698

  Cerwenka, H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; EMPYEMA; FOREIGN BODY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PROGNOSIS; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SEPSIS; STENT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VATER PAPILLOTOMY;

EID: 45849131256     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2008.02.009     Document Type: Note

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