Spinal infections

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 599-607

  Tali, E Turgut ^a   Gültekin, Serap ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arachnoiditis; Imaging; Myelitis; Spinal epidural infections; Spinal leptomeningitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BONE INFECTION; BONE MARROW; BRUCELLOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DURA MATER; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL SPACE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDATID CYST; MYELITIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLIOMYELITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 14844311915     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2576-x     Document Type: Article

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