Uncomplicated postoperative lipoid meningitis secondary to autologous fat graft necrosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 613-615

  Ricaurte, Juan Carlos ^b   Murali, Raj ^a   Mandell, William ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Infectious Disease Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; AUTOGRAFT; CASE REPORT; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MENINGITIS; NECROSIS; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0034043797     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313732     Document Type: Article

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