C. difficile colitis-predictors of fatal outcome

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-322

  Dudukgian, Haig ^a   Sie, Ester ^a   Gonzalez Ruiz, Claudia ^a   Etzioni, David A ^a   Kaiser, Andreas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. difficile colitis; Colectomy; Mortality; Predictors; Pseudomembranous colitis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951884055     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-009-1093-2     Document Type: Article

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