Peritonitis in children: Our experience in Benin City, Nigeria

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-130

  Osifo, Osarumwense D ^a   Ogiemwonyi, Scott O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHEMICAL PERITONITIS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NIGERIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VOLVULUS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NIGERIA; PERITONITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955781254     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.046     Document Type: Article

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