Clostridium difficile pouchitis after proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pricolo, Victor E ^a   Chao, Steven ^a   Gregorian, Armen ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE POUCHITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM POUCH; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANAL CANAL; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONIC POUCHES; DRAINAGE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POUCHITIS; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE;

EID: 80755156442     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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