Percutaneous Hepatic Abscess Drainage: Do Multiple Abscesses or Multiloculated Abscesses Preclude Drainage or Affect Outcome?

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1059-1065

  Liu, Chang Hsien ^a,b   Gervais, Debra A ^a   Hahn, Peter F ^a   Arellano, Ronald S ^a   Uppot, Raul N ^a   Mueller, Peter R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67749133386     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.04.062     Document Type: Article

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