Streptococcus bovis endocarditis and colon cancer: Myth or reality? A case report and literature review

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Galdy, Salvatore ^a   Nastasi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a BOLOGNINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBIN III; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYALGIA; NIGHT SWEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SIGMOID; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHOLE BODY PET;

EID: 84872178656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-006961     Document Type: Article

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