Colonoscopy for 'cryptogenic' pyogenic liver abscess?

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-72

  Zakout, R ^a   Santos, J M ^a   Ferreira, C ^a   Victorino, R M M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; HEMOGLOBIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON BIOPSY; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 73049118264     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2008.01692.x     Document Type: Article

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