Hemorrhagic cytomegalovirus colitis in a postoperative colon cancer patient

Case Reports in Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-113

  Saito, Motonobu ^a,b   Ishino, Atsushi ^a   Ito, Taisuke ^a   Sakuma, Takeshi ^a   Matsuzaki, Masami ^a   Katagata, Naoto ^a   Watanabe, Fumiaki ^a   Takenoshita, Seiichi ^b   Nomizu, Tadashi ^a  

^a HOSHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Hemorrhagic colitis; Immunocompromised host

Indexed keywords

GANCICLOVIR; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CECUM TUMOR; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EDEMA; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; URETER STENT; DIETARY INTAKE; HEMORRHAGIC CYTOMEGALOVIRUS COLITIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84877997399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16626575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000348711     Document Type: Article

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