Levofloxacin and bilateral spontaneous Achilles tendon rupture [3];Levofloxacino y rotura espontánea bilateral del tendón de Aquiles

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 78-79

  Bernácer, Luis ^a   Artigues, Antonia ^a   Serrano, Alejandro ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE MANACOR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TENDINITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037464945     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13042261     Document Type: Letter

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