Cecum perforation due to tuberculosis in a renal transplant recipient: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Carkman, Sinan ^a   Ozben, Volkan ^a   Aytac, Erman ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM; CHILL; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NECROTIZING COLITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 72449198017     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-3-132     Document Type: Article

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