An unusual case of brucellar spondylitis involving both the cervical and lumbar spine

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 273-275

  Zormpala, Alexandra ^a   Skopelitis, Elias ^a   Thanos, Loukas ^b   Artinopoulos, Christos ^c   Kordossis, Theodore ^a   Sipsas, Nikolaos V ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Dracopouleion Centre of Blood Donation   (Greece)

^c SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Cervical; Lumbar; MRI; Spondylodiskitis

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOGRAPHY;

CERVICAL SPINE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GADOLINIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEGENERATION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLOSIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISCITIS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SPONDYLITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034448647     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(00)00226-6     Document Type: Article

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