Advanced intestinal cancer associated with Streptococcus infantarius (former S. bovis II/1) sepsis

International Journal of Clinical Practice

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1358-1359

  Corredoira, J ^a   Coira, A ^a   Iniguez I ^a   Pita, J ^a   Varela, J ^a   Alonso, M P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LUCUS AUGUSTI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOID TUMOR; CECAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS;

EID: 84888017639     PISSN: 13685031     EISSN: 17421241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijcp.12190     Document Type: Letter

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