Intrasphenoid mycotic aneurysm of the internal carotid artery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 887-890

  Brodsky, Alexander ^a   Luntz, Michal ^a,b   Veller, Boaz ^a   Sharf, Benjamin ^a   Goldsher, Moshe ^a   Lurie, Michael ^a   Miselevich, Ines ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFTRIAXONE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EPISTAXIS; EYE PAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; INTRASPHENOID MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; MALE; MENINGITIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; FATALITY; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; PATHOLOGY; SPHENOID SINUS;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; SPHENOID SINUS;

EID: 0038263946     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)00357-7     Document Type: Article

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