Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea and Recurrent Meningitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 364-368

  Pappas, Dennis G ^a,b   Hammerschlag, Paul E ^a,b   Hammerschlag, Margaret ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; ETHMOIDECTOMY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0027264462     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/17.3.364     Document Type: Article

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