Septic thrombosis of the dural venous sinuses

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 82-106

  Southwick, Frederick S ^b   Richardoson, E P ^a   Swartz, Morton N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER SINUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TRANSVERSE SINUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CRANIAL SINUSES; DURA MATER; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PROTEUS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPTICEMIA; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0022588012     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-198603000-00002     Document Type: Article

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