Spinal hydatid disease and its neurological complications

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 6-7, 2003, Pages 394-396

  Fares, Youssef ^a,b   Khazim, Rabi ^c   El Zaatari, Mohamed M ^a,d   Haddad, George F ^d   Barnes, P Ruiz ^b  

^a Hammoud Hospital   (Lebanon)

^b Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

^c SOUTHEND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; FLUBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; INCIDENCE; LEBANON; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT INFECTION; SPAIN; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0041419690     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310009040     Document Type: Article

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