A population-based study of pyogenic liver abscesses in the united states: Incidence, mortality, and temporal trends

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 117-124

  Meddings, Liisa ^a   Myers, Robert P ^a   Hubbard, James ^a   Shaheen, Abdel Aziz ^a   Laupland, Kevin B ^a,b   Dixon, Elijah ^b   Coffin, Carla ^a   Kaplan, Gilaad G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73849137505     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.614     Document Type: Article

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