Patient with abdominal pain-concealing gastrointestinal mucormycosis

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 657-661

  Azhar, Ashaur ^a   Calubiran, Ofelia V ^a   Kilaru, R Mohan ^a   Lincoln, Joel A ^a   Moshenyat, Isaac ^a   Basti, Kuhn ^a   Visconti, E ^a  

^a LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESOMEPRAZOLE; FENTANYL; FLUCONAZOLE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; INSULIN GLARGINE; MEROPENEM; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METOPROLOL; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; POSACONAZOLE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLD CLAMMY SKIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGOJEJUNOSTOMY; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCORMYCOSIS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JEJUNOSTOMY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PALLOR; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH PERFORATION; STOMACH ULCER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE CULTURE; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77954593897     PISSN: 15547914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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