The changing face of malignant (necrotising) external otitis: Clinical, radiological, and anatomic correlations

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-39

  Grandis, Jennifer Rubin ^a   Branstetter IV, Barton F ^a   Yu, Victor L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANATOMY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE EROSION; CERUMEN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTERNAL OTITIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 0347356751     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00858-2     Document Type: Review

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