Postoperative lumbar discitis: Types, diagnostic procedures and treatment;Postoperativ lumbal discitis: Typeinddeling, udredning og behandling

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 158, Issue 38, 1996, Pages 5281-5285

  Petri, Anne ^a   Jensen, Inge Panum ^b  

^a HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; DISKITIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISCITIS; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 0030590281     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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