Current Management of Pyogenic Liver Abscess: Surgery is Now Second-Line Treatment

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 210, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 975-983

  Mezhir, James J ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a   Jacks, Lindsay M ^a   Getrajdman, George I ^a   Brody, Lynn A ^a   Covey, Ann M ^a   Thornton, Raymond H ^a   Jarnagin, William R ^a   Solomon, Stephen B ^a   Brown, Karen T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANCER GROWTH; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE SEPSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952550312     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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