Spinal instrumentation for primary pyogenic infection report of 31 patients

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 242-247

  Faraj, A A ^a,b   Webb, J K ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Outcome; Spinal infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIMARY INFECTION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINAL DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPPURATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033924184     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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