Epiglottitis: A 9-year case review

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 487-490

  Hickerson, Steven L ^a,b   Kirby, Russell S ^a   Wheeler, J Gary ^a   Schutze, Gordon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Trinity Clinic Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTUBATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ARKANSAS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 0029989465     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199605000-00007     Document Type: Article

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