Gemella morbillorum - Spondylodiscitis in a patient with a renal graft

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1565-1567

  Eisenberger, Ute ^a   Brunkhorst, Reinhard ^a   Perharic, Lucija ^a   Petersen, Ruth ^a   Kliem, Volker ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gemella morbillorum; Magnetic resonance imaging; Renal transplantation; Spondylodiscitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; GEMELLA; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; ANAMNESIS; BED REST; BONE BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GEMELLA MORBILLORUM; HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DISCITIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

ANALGESIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V;

EID: 0031749151     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/13.6.1565     Document Type: Article

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