Current trends in the management of infected necrotizing pancreatitis

Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-14

  Sakorafas, George H ^a   Lappas, Christos ^a   Mastoraki, Aikaterini ^a   Delis, Spiros G ^a   Safioleas, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antibiotic therapy; Debridement; FNA; Necrotizing pancreatitis; Pancreas; Pancreatitis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROIMIDAZOLE; PEFLOXACIN; PROCALCITONIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

EID: 77949420474     PISSN: 18715265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187152610790410936     Document Type: Review

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