Potentially life-threatening neck abscesses: Therapeutic management under CT-guided drainage

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 196-199

  Thanos, L ^a   Mylona, S ^a   Kalioras, V ^a   Pomoni, M ^a   Batakis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

CT guidance; Drainage; Neck abscess

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NECK INJURY; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; BALLOON DILATATION; FOREIGN BODY; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NECK; PHARYNX DISEASE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOOTH INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOCAL INFECTION, DENTAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; NECK INJURIES; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 19144370713     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-004-0003-y     Document Type: Article

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