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Bacteroides peritonitis associated with colon cancer in a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patient
S Nachimuthu1, E B Visconti, J B Pannone
1Department of Internal Medicine, Lutheran Medical Center and State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn, USA.
Southern Medical Journal
|November 13, 2001
Abstract:
Peritonitis is not an uncommon complication of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). We report a case of Bacteroides fragilis-induced bacterial peritonitis, probably due to clinically occult malignancy, in a 76-year-old woman on CAPD.