Descending necrotizing mediastinitis due to odontogenic infections

Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 412-419

  Sakamoto, H ^a   Aoki, T ^a   Kise, Y ^a   Watanabe, D ^a   Sasaki, J ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; TOOTH INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOCAL INFECTION, DENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS;

EID: 0034168578     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(00)70121-1     Document Type: Article

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