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Typhoid perforation treated with and without metronidazole along with chloramphenicol, gentamycin
K Javaid1, R H Dab, A H Rathore
1Department of Surgery, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad.
JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
|March 1, 1996
Abstract:
Forty cases of typhoid ileal perforation were treated surgically in three years. Chloramphenicol and gentamycin were given to 20 patients, while the remaining 20, received Metronidazole additionally. The mortality rate was 60 percent in the first and 40 percent in the second group.