Falling downstairs does not mean a fracture: The 1st case report of an immunocompetent community acquired MRSA disc/psoas abscess

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 569-572

  Siddiqui, Mohammed Aslam ^a   Richards, Paula Jane ^a   Ahmed, Elnasri B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISKITIS; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS ABSCESS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA BODY;

EID: 14744291372     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2004.09.036     Document Type: Article

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