A description of CT features of Clostridium difficile infection of the small bowel in four patients and a review of literature

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 983, 2009, Pages 890-895

  Wee, B ^a   Poels, J A D ^a   Mccafferty, I J ^a   Taniere, P ^a   Olliff, J ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; FIBRIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MUCIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASCITES; CELL INFILTRATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ILEITIS; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE ULCER; LAPAROTOMY; PELVIS SURGERY; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECTUM ADENOMA; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SPLENECTOMY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CROSS INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73349122939     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/57970083     Document Type: Review

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