Intrathecal Administration of Vancomycin for Coagulase-Negative Staphylococcal Meningitis in a Patient with Blunt Head Injury: Case Report

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1010-1012

  Kawamoto, Hitoshi ^a   Inagawa, Tetsuji ^a   Ikawa, Fusao ^a   Sakamoto, Shigeyuki ^a   Urabe, Shinpei ^a  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABEKACIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FOREIGN BODY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT;

EID: 0036847785     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200211000-00035     Document Type: Article

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