Fulminant small bowel enteritis: A rare complication of Clostridium difficile associated disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 801-802

  Fleming, Fergal ^a   Khursigara, Natasha ^a   O'Connell, Nuala ^a   Darby, Sean ^a   Waldron, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; INFUSION FLUID; STEROID;

ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHORESIS; ENTERITIS; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; LETTER; MALE; MEGACOLON; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SMALL INTESTINE; TACHYCARDIA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650261645     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20758     Document Type: Letter

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