Intramedullary abscess from group F Streptococcus

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-204

  Vora, Yashail A ^a   Raad, Issam I ^a   McCutcheon, Ian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOTOMY;

ABSCESS; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 10944271205     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/1096296041839444     Document Type: Article

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