The clinical use of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2089-2093

  Carragee, Eugene J ^a,b   Kim, David ^a   Van Der Vlugt, Theresa ^a   Vittum, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Osteomyelitis spine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0031411021     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199709150-00005     Document Type: Article

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