Spinal epidural abscess in an afebrile patient

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 590-591

  Tessman, Patrick A ^a   Preston, David C ^a   Shapiro, Barbara E ^b  

^a Case W Reserve Univ Sch of Med ^*

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EPIDURAL SPACE; FASCICULATION; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX DISORDER; SEPSIS; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SPINAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS; SPINE INJURY; SPINE SURGERY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIBRATION SENSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; SPINE DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERTEBRA;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SPINAL DISEASES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 2342638951     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.4.590     Document Type: Article

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