Value of antral puncture in the intensive care patient withfever of unknown origin

Laryngoscope

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1702-1706

  Vandenbussche, T ^a   De Moor, S ^a   Bachert, C ^a   Van Cauwenberge, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

intensive care; Nosocomial; sinus puncture; sinusitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; MONOBACTAM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MIDDLE AGE; PUNCTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0033776044     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200010000-00025     Document Type: Article

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