Surgical management of nontuberculous thoracic and lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis: Report of 33 cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 551-561

  Arnold, Paul M ^a   Baek, Paul N ^b   Bernardi, Robert J ^b   Luck, Elizabeth A ^b   Larson, Sanford J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Osteomyelitis; spinal infection; spine surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINE DISEASE; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OSTEOMYELITIS; PARAPLEGIA; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030967039     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(96)00242-X     Document Type: Article

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