Lumbar facet joint infection associated with epidural and paraspinal abscess

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 339, Issue , 1997, Pages 109-112

  Baltz, Matthew S ^a   Tate, David E ^a   Glaser, John A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LUMBAR SPINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030939733     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199706000-00015     Document Type: Article

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