A review of the medical records of patients diagnosed as having "spontaneous bacterial peritonitis" (SBP) revealed 18 episodes of culture-negative neutrocytic ascites (CNNA) in 17 patients. The following criteria were all required in order to qualify for this diagnosis: (i) an ascitic fluid neutrop
Monomicrobial nonneutrocytic bacterascites: A variant of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
โ Scribed by Bruce A. Runyon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 641 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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