Complicated intra-abdominal infections: A focus on appendicitis and diverticulitis

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-51

  Spirt, Mitchell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobials; Appendicitis; Complicated intra abdominal infections; Diverticulitis; Fluoroquinolones

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFTIZOXIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PENETRATING TRAUMA; ABSCESS; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APPENDICITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FISTULA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDICITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; HUMANS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 76249132128     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.01.2098     Document Type: Review

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