Is a diverting loop ileostomy and colonic lavage an alternative to colectomy for the treatment of severe Clostridium difficile-associated disease?

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 214-216

  Brown, Carl J ^a   Boutros, Marylise ^a   Morris, Andrew ^a   Divino, Celia M ^a   Baxter, N N ^a   Brasel, K J ^a   Chaudhury, P K ^a   Dixon, E ^a   Fitzgerald, G W N ^a   Hameed, S M ^a   Henteleff, H J ^a   Hughes, T G ^a   Kao, L S ^a   Kirkpatrick, A W ^a   Latosinsky, S ^a   Mastracci, T M ^a   McLeod, R S ^a   Morris, A M ^a   Pawlik, T M ^a   Temple, L K ^a   McKenzie, M E ^a,b   more..

^a Operations Pulp Paper and Printing   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOTE; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLON; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MALE;

EID: 84904344591     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.005014     Document Type: Article

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