Septic spondylodiscitis: Diagnosis and treatment;Espondilodiscites septicas: Diagnostico e tratamento

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 61, Issue 3 B, 2003, Pages 829-835

  Leal, Francisco Sérgio C Barros ^a,c   De Tella Jr , Oswaldo Inácio ^a   Bonatelli, Antônio de Pádua Furquim ^a   Herculano, Marco Antônio ^a   Aguiar, Paulo Henrique ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Clínica Neurológica   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Septic discitis; Septic spondilodiscitis; Vertebral osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SPONDYLODISKITIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141918411     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2003000500023     Document Type: Article

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