Toxic megacolon due to fulminant Clostridium Difficile colitis

Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 359-360

  Griniatsos, John ^a   Dimitriou, Nikoletta ^a   Tyritzis, Stavros ^a   Pappas, Panagiotis ^a   Sougioultzis, Stavros ^a   Stravodimos, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; FECES CULTURE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE SOUND; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; TACHYCARDIA; TOXIC MEGACOLON; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC;

EID: 80052912057     PISSN: 00015644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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