Outcome after colectomy for Clostridium difficile colitis

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1620-1626

  Longo, Walter E ^a,b   Mazuski, John E ^a   Virgo, Katherine S ^a   Lee, Paul ^a   Bahadursingh, Anil N ^a   Johnson, Frank E ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Colectomy; Fulminant colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RISK FACTOR; SHOCK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4944234926     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-004-0672-2     Document Type: Article

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