Brucellar spondylodiscitis in the lumbar region: Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 210-212

  Turgut, Mehmet ^a   Şendur, Ömer Faruk ^a   Gürel, Mustafa ^a  

^a ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brucellosis; Disc infection; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spondylitis

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; ROSE BENGAL; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISKITIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADICULAR PAIN; SPINE MOBILITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRUCELLOSIS; DISCITIS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0037660465     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.210     Document Type: Article

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