Colectomy for fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis: Predictors of mortality

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 418-421

  Perera, Anton Dias ^a   Akbari, Robert P ^a   Cowher, Michael S ^b   Read, Thomas E ^a   Mccormick, James T ^a   Medich, David S ^b   Celebrezze Jr , James P ^b   Beck, Sandra J ^b   Fischer, Peter E ^c   Caushaj, Philip F ^a  

^a WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEGACOLON; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950381169     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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