Spinal epidural abscess: Contemporary trends in etiology, evaluation, and management

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-197

  Rigamonti, Daniele ^a   Liem, Leon ^b   Sampath, Prakash ^a   Knoller, Nachshon ^b   Numaguchi, Yuji ^b   Schreibman, David L ^b   Sloan, Michael A ^b   Wolf, Aizik ^b   Zeidman, Seth ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Abscess; Epidural; Etiology; Evaluation; Infection; Management; Spinal; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PARAPLEGIA; PARESTHESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR; SPINE SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDURAL SPACE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SPINAL DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032788269     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(99)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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