Acute Inflammatory Surgical Disease

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-30

  Fagenholz, Peter J ^a   de Moya, Marc A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Cholangitis; Cholecystitis; Clostridium difficile; Colitis; Diverticulitis; Pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FIDAXOMICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLONE; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; TINIDAZOLE; TOLEVAMER; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABSCESS; ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALGORITHM; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANASTOMOSIS; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CALCULOUS ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; CHOLESTASIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON LAVAGE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOSE FEEDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PELVIS ABSCESS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERFORATION; PERITONITIS; PHLEGMON; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHIFT TO THE LEFT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; PANCREATITIS;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PERITONITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888149416     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: 15583171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2013.10.008     Document Type: Review

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