Clostridium difficile enteritis: Diffuse small bowel radiological changes in a patient with abdominal sepsis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2018, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Siddiqui, Juveria ^a   Campion, Thomas ^a   Wei, Rui ^a   Kuzmich, Siarhei ^a  

^a BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLOVAGINAL FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL LYMPHOMA; HUMAN; ILEOSCOPY; ILEOSTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SYMPTOM; VAGINA DISEASE; ABDOMEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; STOMACH DISEASE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROHN DISEASE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPSIS; STOMACH DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85041325579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222209     Document Type: Article

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